The book is split up into Projects instead of chapters. There are seven projects and two appendices. The first project is basically an introduction to Tkinter. The second one is creating a simple text editor, like Notepad. Project 3 covers a programmable drum machine. In Project 4, you learn how to create a Chess game. For Project 5, you create an audio playing application. Project 6 is a drawing application kind of like Paint. The last project chapter actually covers several mini projects, from creating a screen saver, to building a game, to graphing and several other fun activities.

I personally really enjoyed learning how to make the various applications and games. The variety and creativity are evident and I was surprised how short the programs ended up being. I think I liked the drum machine project the best just because of how unique it was and also because I’ve been a big fan of electronic music for long time. The chess game was also really interesting in how the author structured the program and set up its logic.

Even if I hadn’t been one of the people who helped the author with this book, I believe I would have been happy with my purchase. There are just so many neat ideas here. When I was reading the chapters I was constantly thinking about how I would like to try this idea or that one in wxPython or PySide to see how they would compare. So if you are looking for some ideas for your first GUI project, regardless of which toolkit you normally use, I would recommend this book. I would also recommend it to anyone wanting to learn Tkinter.