Building Desktop Applications with Python and Kivy

Great starting place for kivy, Many Thanks.

This was a great course. Before I started the course when I looked at the Kivy documentation I was overwhelmed. Now I feel confident I can create any UI I need using Kivy. I also liked that the projects in the course were real world examples. Both the Gallery app and video app I can put to use. The instructor was very helpful when I had a coding problem. Money well spent. Thank You.

Although the course started off great, the instructor quickly leapt into projects without explaining things in depth. Basically, you’re going to watch this guy think aloud as he develops these projects. You’re better off reading the Kivy documentation/ watching YouTube tutorials.

Haven’t been following this long, but he provides little context for what he is doing and he doesn’t provide alternative options.

Firstly, this is correct Kivy course to buy on Udemy, you’ll learn everything you need in here for whatever app you want to make I have a massive criticism though: If he explained what he was doing, it would literally add maybe 10 minutes combined across all 84 vids. Then it would be 5 stars The following gets really bad starting the 2nd half of project 2. He starts just reading what he’s writing rather than explaining. What I mean is you can easily find out what most of his functions do with googling and studying his code, but then also he’ll randomly and quickly go back in his code and write (for example) canvas.before which would take him under 10 seconds to explain, but he doesn’t. Other times his explanations are lackluster like he wrote #: import Factory kivy.factory.Factory and I had no idea what that did, he explained for 3 seconds and I didn’t get it at all. 3rd, there’s a span of a few vids where he’s traversing widgets by calling like instance.parent.parent.parent.children[0], and that was soooo hard to keep track of because he wasn’t explaining anything, he clearly knew what each parent was and could just say it or show his notes that show what they are, but he doesn t. Instead you pause and might spend a few minutes writing a comment over each function saying what each level of parent is. he was just reading what he wrote. You’ll get random small questions that might be hard to google or test like when he writes root in his kivy file, what is root referring to? The screenmanager class, or the screen obj, or the gallery class that has all the code under it. I’m a fan of the teaching style of less time explaining things you could google in 2 min and have the student study the lecture by themselves, but his frequency of skipping explanations and being too brief in explanations is way too much

Great course! This course will give you hands on experience to construct your own user interfaces using Kivy.

very nice explanation, easy to follow.

Having over 35 years of computer experience this course moves a little fast for newbies and there are install errors in the windows implementation for Windows 10 build on 64bit OS of kivy. Batch file fails on Windows. I used manual install via pip install of kivy, cython, etc. Code for the Calculator has some bugs and could use some improvement. A few lessons are out of order for the Photo Gallery code videos. Many lessons are out of order in the Video Player and include more code than has been shown prior. There are no partial files to compare KV or PY files to make sure there are no missing lines of PY or KV. It is nearly impossible to reorder the videos to make coherent lessons to learn the code. All in all the process is good though it goes too fast (several replays are required). But the videos are out of order for the Video Player making it very hard to follow the logic/instructions. This could be a GREAT learning experience if more time was put into the lessons in the Video Player to fix it’s many shortcomings. Also, this could mostly be saved if the instructor provided code excerpts after EACH lesson including the py and kv files and reordered or rerecorded the videos into proper sequence.