Well, the hand holding is basically showing you how to build a simple application that has a few buttons and a few input fields. It's sort of like reading the

Well, the hand holding is basically showing you how to build a simple application that has a few buttons and a few input fields. It's sort of like reading the simple 5 line example of how fork() works in a 101 class. The author writes 50 line programs for computer science books. However, when you're writing an application with a bigger scope the simple 50 line example isn't much use.