# Tutorial for beginners (Vala)

A beginner's guide to GUI programming using GTK+, including code samples and practice exercises.
Tiffany Antopolski
tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com
Marta Maria Casetti
mmcasettii@gmail.com 2013

# Tutorial for beginners and code samples

     Although these tutorials are designed for beginners, we can't cover all the basics.  Before attempting to follow these tutorials, you are expected to be familiar with the following concepts:

      Object oriented programming
      The Vala programming language:

         The Vala Tutorial
         Sample Vala code

    By following these tutorials you will learn the basics of GUI programming using GTK+.

# Tutorials

# Code samples

To run the code samples:

Copy and paste the code into filename.vala

In the terminal type:

    valac --pkg gtk+-3.0 filename.vala

    ./filename

## Windows

## Display widgets

## Buttons and toggles

## Numeric and text data entry

## Multiline text editor

## Menu, combo box and toolbar widgets

## TreeView widget

## Selectors

### File selectors

### Font selectors

### Color Selectors

## Layout containers

## Ornaments

## Scrolling

## Miscellaneous

# Exercises