Intro to Tkinter

Overview

This is a ~2 hour class that will introduce Graphical User Interface (GUI) programming using the Python Tkinter module. Topics covered will include:

• The creation of widgets
• Geometry Managers
• Pop-up windows
• Menus, bindings
• Thread use.

VM Instructions

This course will feature hands-on work with a 1-node Hadoop cluster running on your laptop. The VMs are created with Vagrant. Before the course, ensure this is up and running:

• Install VirtualBox on your laptop and start it.
• Under Settings or Preferences, go to Network, then Host-only networks, and add/create two host-only networks.
• Then download the virtual machine image you want to use:
  • Full Size VM with GUI (require peak of ~8GB free disk space)
  • Smaller, Text-only (require peak of ~6GB free disk space)
• "Import Appliance", and select the downloaded image; this will uncompress the image which will take some minutes.
• Start the new virtual machine.

The GUI VM will start up a console with a full desktop environment; you can open a terminal and begin working. For the text VM, you will have to login to the console; the username/password is vagrant/vagrant. For either machine, you can also ssh into the VM from your laptop from the terminal:

ssh vagrant@192.168.33.10

or to the laptop from the VM with

ssh [username]@192.168.33.1

(If that particular address pair doesn't work, from a window within the VM, type "ifconfig | grep 192" to find a line like "inet addr: 192.168...."; that's the VMs IP address)

Then make sure everything is working:

• From a terminal, start up the hadoop cluster by typing

  ~/bin/init.sh

  You may have to answer "yes" a few times to start up some servers.
• Go to one of the example directories by typing

  cd ~/examples/wordcount/streaming

• Then start the example by typing

  make

You've now run your (maybe) first Hadoop job!

If you'd like, you can also create the virtual machine image yourself by downloading Vagrant and the Vagrantfile for the GUI or text image and running "vagrant up". If you vagrant-up the GUI VM, you will have to "vagrant reload" after installation is completed to restart with all the software installed.

If you can't get the VM working for whatever reason, please contact us and we will make alternate arrangements.