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Published inFeb 2019
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Arjuna Sky Kok
Arjuna Sky Kok
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Arjuna Sky Kok

Arjuna Sky Kok has experience more than 10 years in expressing himself as a software engineer. He has developed web applications using Symfony, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, and Django. He also has built mobile applications on top of Android and iOS platforms. Currently, he is researching Ethereum technology. Other than that, he teaches Android and iOS programming to students. He graduated from Bina Nusantara University with majors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. He always strives to become a holistic person by enjoying leisure activities, such as dancing Salsa, learning French, and playing StarCraft 2. He lives quietly in the bustling city of Jakarta. In loving memory of my late brother, Hengdra Santoso (1979-2011).
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In this chapter, we learned how to build a GUI frontend for a smart contract and how to use Qt for Python or the PySide2 library, which utilizes the Qt 5 library. We set time aside to learn how to build a GUI application using Qt for Python. Starting with a simple application, we took into the layout, various widgets, signals and slots, and threading, and we finally gained an understanding of how to use the PySide2 library. We built our smart contract to simulate Twitter in a simple way, delighting in the censorship resistance of this Twitter-like application. Next, we built the GUI frontend. This GUI application uses all the concepts you have learned so far. We used threading to connect to the blockchain so that the GUI would not freeze. We also added additional value through the ability to bookmark in our GUI application.

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Arjuna Sky Kok

Arjuna Sky Kok has experience more than 10 years in expressing himself as a software engineer. He has developed web applications using Symfony, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, and Django. He also has built mobile applications on top of Android and iOS platforms. Currently, he is researching Ethereum technology. Other than that, he teaches Android and iOS programming to students. He graduated from Bina Nusantara University with majors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. He always strives to become a holistic person by enjoying leisure activities, such as dancing Salsa, learning French, and playing StarCraft 2. He lives quietly in the bustling city of Jakarta. In loving memory of my late brother, Hengdra Santoso (1979-2011).
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