A–Z PySide6 Learning Roadmap

 🅰️ 1. Setup & Basics

 Goal: Understand what PySide6 is, install it, and make your first GUI.

1. What is PySide6 (Qt for Python)?
2. Install PySide6 (pip install pyside6)
3. Create your first GUI window (QApplication, QWidget)
4. Add basic widgets (QPushButton, QLabel, QLineEdit)
5. Layouts (QVBoxLayout, QHBoxLayout, QGridLayout)
6. Signals & Slots — event handling
7. Show message boxes (QMessageBox)
8. Run your first PySide6 app end-to-end

🅱️ 2. Intermediate UI Design

Goal: Build more complex, modern interfaces.

1. Group widgets (QGroupBox, QFrame)

2. Tabs and stacked widgets (QTabWidget, QStackedWidget)

3. Menus and toolbars (QMenuBar, QToolBar)

4. Status bar & main window (QMainWindow)

5. Dialogs (file, color, font, custom dialogs)

6. Use .ui files with Qt Designer

7. Load .ui dynamically (QUiLoader, loadUiType)

8. Resources & icons (.qrc and pyside6-rcc)

🅲 3. Core Logic & Architecture

Goal: Write clean, maintainable PySide6 apps.

1. Organize code with MVC/MVVM pattern

2. Custom classes and widgets (inherit QWidget)

3. Manage application state

4. Use signals and slots across files

5. Threading basics (QThread, QRunnable, QThreadPool)

6. Timer & scheduling (QTimer)

7. Model/View system (QTableView, QListView, QTreeView)

8. Data models (QStandardItemModel, custom models)

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🅳 4. Styling & Theming

Goal: Make your app beautiful and professional.

1. Qt Style Sheets (QSS, similar to CSS)

2. Custom widget styles

3. Dark / Light themes

4. Use .qrc resources for icons & images

5. Fonts and responsive UI

6. Style with QtModern or QDarkStyle

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🅴 5. Advanced Components

Goal: Handle real-world app features.

1. File I/O (open/save JSON, CSV, text)

2. QTableWidget & QTreeWidget advanced usage

3. Rich Text Editor (QTextEdit)

4. Web content (QWebEngineView)

5. Charts (QtCharts, QChartView)

6. Graphics & Drawing (QGraphicsView, QPainter)

7. Drag & Drop support

8. Clipboard, shortcuts, system tray icons

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🅵 6. Performance & Multithreading

Goal: Keep your GUI fast and responsive.

1. Why GUIs freeze and how to avoid it

2. Threading with QThread

3. Using QRunnable with QThreadPool

4. Asynchronous tasks and signals

5. Background loading, progress bars

6. Worker-thread patterns

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🅶 7. Database & Data Integration

Goal: Connect your UI with data storage.

1. Connect to SQLite/MySQL with QSqlDatabase

2. Display query results with QSqlTableModel

3. CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete)

4. Build a mini database manager UI

5. ORM integration (e.g., SQLAlchemy with PySide6)

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🅷 8. Animations & UX Polish

Goal: Add motion and life to your interface.

1. Qt Animation Framework (QPropertyAnimation)

2. Sequential & parallel animations (QSequentialAnimationGroup)

3. Fade in/out effects (QGraphicsOpacityEffect)

4. Button hover animations

5. Splash screen and transitions

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🅸 9. Packaging & Deployment

Goal: Share your app with others.

1. Convert .py → .exe using:

   • PyInstaller

   • cx_Freeze

   • fbs

2. Add app icons, metadata, version info

3. Include external files/resources

4. Optimize build size

5. Cross-platform builds (Windows/Linux/macOS)

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🅹 10. Pro Projects (Capstones)

Goal: Apply everything to build real apps.

1. 📝 Notepad Clone

2. 📂 File Explorer

3. 🧾 To-Do / Task Manager

4. 🎵 Music Player (QMediaPlayer)

5. 📊 Dashboard with Charts

6. 🌐 Browser with QWebEngine

7. 📅 Database App (CRUD + QTableView)

8. 🧠 AI Chat or ML-powered GUI

🅺 11. Extras / Integration

Goal: Go beyond the basics.

1. Integrate with Python libraries (Pandas, OpenCV, etc.)

2. Embed Matplotlib / Plotly charts

3. Integrate REST APIs (using requests or aiohttp)

4. Save settings (QSettings)

5. Logging & exception handling

6. Create plugin systems

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🅻 12. UI Design Tools & Workflow

Goal: Learn tools that boost productivity.

1. Qt Designer & Designer workflow

2. Qt Resource Compiler (pyside6-rcc)

3. .qrc → .py conversion

4. UI/UX tips for desktop design

5. Working with multiple windows (QMdiArea, QDialog)

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🅼 13. Modern Patterns & Best Practices

Goal: Write scalable production-grade apps.

1. App architecture (modular design)

2. Dependency injection concepts

3. Logging, error handling, and testing

4. Versioning, config files, environment separation

5. Clean file/folder structure

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🅽 14. Beyond PySide6

Goal: Explore next-level Qt ecosystem.

1. Compare PySide6 vs PyQt6

2. Use QtQuick / QML with Python

3. Build hybrid apps (PySide6 + WebEngine frontend)

4. Embed OpenGL or game visuals

5. Connect PySide6 with C++ Qt libraries

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🧱 Recommended Learning Flow

Level	Stage	Topics
🟢 Beginner	A–B	Setup, widgets, layouts
🟡 Intermediate	C–F	Architecture, threading, styling
🔵 Advanced	G–I	Databases, animation, deployment
🟣 Pro	J–M	Full apps, best practices, QML integration