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Creating Basic Forms with Tkinter and Ttk Widgets

Good news! Your design has been reviewed and approved by the director. Now it's time to start implementing it! In this chapter, we'll be creating a very simple application that delivers the core functionality of the specification and little else. This is known as a minimum viable product or MVP. The MVP will not be production-ready, but it will give us something to show our users and help us better understand the problem and the technologies we're working with. We'll cover this in the following topics:

  • In The Ttk widget set, we'll learn about a better widget set for Tkinter, Ttk.
  • In Implementing the application, we'll build our form design using Python, Tkinter, and Ttk.

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