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Lee Zhi Eng
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Lee Zhi Eng

Lee Zhi Eng is a self-taught programmer who worked as an artist and programmer at several game studios before becoming a part-time lecturer for 2 years at a university, teaching game development subjects related to Unity and Unreal Engine. He has not only taken part in various projects related to games, interactive apps, and virtual reality but has also participated in multiple projects that are more oriented toward software and system development. When he is not writing code, he enjoys traveling, photography, and exploring new technologies.
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Learning more about Qt

In the first few chapters, I pointed you to the Help panel of Qt Creator as well as the editor's facility for the autocompletion of class members when editing code. Qt Creator's help view is really a subview of Qt Assistant, the full documentation for Qt. This should be installed by default if you install all of the Qt installations; the documentation is packaged as HTML files locally. Much of this documentation is also available on the web, but it's much faster to access it this way.

When we start Qt Assistant from the Qt SDK (either from the command line with assistant, or by finding it in the installed list of applications), we should see something similar to the following screenshot:

Qt Assistant is the definitive place to learn about Qt. In the column on the left-hand side, you can see a table of contents; the best place to start is...

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Lee Zhi Eng

Lee Zhi Eng is a self-taught programmer who worked as an artist and programmer at several game studios before becoming a part-time lecturer for 2 years at a university, teaching game development subjects related to Unity and Unreal Engine. He has not only taken part in various projects related to games, interactive apps, and virtual reality but has also participated in multiple projects that are more oriented toward software and system development. When he is not writing code, he enjoys traveling, photography, and exploring new technologies.
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