Am I the only one that has a hard time with front end development? I'm trying to learn Qt using PySide and it's kicking my ass.

Yes, you are the only one.

@mangs do you have any recommendations, then? Surely there must be something I'm looking at the wrong way.

why you don't go after html5 and js like every normal person?

@superuser I don't feel like my future in web development. I'm not much of a designer. I just want to build a front end for my small database application.

then do it like everyone who is not a designer, included me.
bootstrap, jquery and googling.

@superuser It just doesn't interest me. I might one day, but for now I'm still learning to program. I managed to learn SQL easily, most things have been pretty easy for me to grasp, but front end stuff has been difficult.

I just don't get why since you find difficult qt, you don't try the easier way.. 😕

Hah, we'll call it stubbornness. If I can't get it to work this way, I'll probably do some sort of native HTML5 interface. I think part of my issue is that PySide is a wrapper module around Qt. So, there's nowhere near as many resources for it as plain Qt, and when I get an issue, it's harder to find an answer. Also, the learning materials are much less thorough. I'm practically learning by trial and error.

@sheeponmeth hate to be a dick, but html and javascript aren't designer tools. Just grow up, admit you're being lazy and learn JavaScript.

@askerr It's not a matter of growing up, but maybe a misconception. I don't have any desire to do web development, I've forayed into it before, and I might again once I'm more confident in my Python. I'm still very much a beginner. But for the time being I'd like to stick to learning to make native applications first.

@sheeponmeth well I don't know what you expected when you asked a bunch of developers, a sizable percentage of which are web developers, how to do frontend but not wanting to learn remedial JavaScript. That's like asking and iOS engineer how to make an iPhone app without objective c or swift.

@askerr, I definitely do tend to underestimate the portion of developers that are web developers. Good news though, I've got my project working, or at least this chunk of it. I think I bit off more than I could chew at once. I stepped back, took a more organized approach, and then after some debugging, it works. It needs tweaking for aesthetic, but it works.