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I think playing with scheme is going to take a back seat, again, for awhile. Having a little free time last night, rather than installing the scheme interpreter and playing with that, I started checking out gtk+ programming, something I’ve been interested in for awhile.

I think now that my next project will be some sort of gtk+ program. This stuff is great!

GTK stands for the "Gimp Tool Kit", and describes a set of widgets/libraries (in C) which were originally written for the Gimp (Gnu Image Manipulation Program).  Gtk has since been developed continuously and is the native widget set for the Gnome Desktop.

If you use Gnome as a desktop, gtk+ and C are a fairly obvious choice for GUI programming. Probably a better choice than Java, for example. I’ve not tried it yet but gtk has also been ported to Windows, so you can apparently port your gtk applications to Windows with little trouble.

Anyways, if you use Linux, and enjoy programming, check out gui programming with Gtk+. It’s very easy to get started, and a lot of fun to see your gui come to life in just a few moments.