QGIS plugin development with Python

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Software components required for plugin development

Lecture 3: What exactly is a QGIS plugin?

Lecture 4: When do you need a plugin vs. a script

Chapter 2: Our first plugin

Lecture 1: Setting up the groundwork with Plugin Builder 3

Lecture 2: Changing the plugin icon

Lecture 3: Building the plugins GUI

Lecture 4: Adding the python code

Lecture 5: Debugging and distributing

Chapter 3: Building a data entry plugin

Lecture 1: Background and setup

Lecture 2: Building the GUI

Lecture 3: Understanding the plugins run method

Lecture 4: Validating the QGIS environment and preparing to create a new feature

Lecture 5: Adding a new point and buffer feature to the project

Lecture 6: Intro to version control with Git and GitHub

Lecture 7: Putting our plugin under version control

Lecture 8: Adding a results dialog to the plugin

Lecture 9: Populating the results dialog

Chapter 4: Creating a map tool plugin

Lecture 1: MapTool basics

Lecture 2: Creating the plugin GUI

Lecture 3: Creating a polyline geometry from the MapTool

Lecture 4: Populating the impact table

Lecture 5: Challenge exercise solution

Chapter 5: Using the QGIS specific widgets in Qt Designer

Lecture 1: Setting up the Widget Example plugin

Lecture 2: Data entry widgets

Lecture 3: Map layer, field, and coordinate system selection widgets

Lecture 4: Map layer, field, and coordinate reference selection widgets – part 2

Lecture 5: Extents boxes, expression editor, symbology picker and more!

Chapter 6: Writing a plugin for public use

Lecture 1: Diversity Calculator background

Lecture 2: Project setup

Lecture 3: Creating the GUI

Lecture 4: Flowcharting and final data structure

Lecture 5: Looping through the polygons

Lecture 6: Looping through the points

Lecture 7: Calculating diversity indices

Lecture 8: Reporting the results

Lecture 9: Introduction to Sphinx

Lecture 10: Challenge solution

Lecture 11: Uploading to the official QGIS repository

Chapter 7: Writing a processing plugin

Lecture 1: Introduction to processing plugins

Lecture 2: The QgsProcessingAlgorithm class

Lecture 3: The processAlgorithm method

Lecture 4: Building a processing plugin with plugin builder 3

Lecture 5: Adding help info and customization input and output parameters

Lecture 6: Retrieving parameters and processing the algorithm

Lecture 7: Outputting an HTML file

Lecture 8: Challenge solution: Include detailed output.

Chapter 8: Where to go from here?

Lecture 1: Where to go from here?

Chapter 9: How to get the most from my curses

Lecture 1: How to get the most from my courses