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Interactive Web Applications with Tcl/Tk

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I really liked the example code. It's nice for a change to see really useful example programs, instead of the usual enginerdish foobar stuff.

Forget this book. Half of the book consists of a Tcl/Tk introduction, better explanations are found in other books. Tcl/Tk code builds the other half, and Tcl/Tk code examples are available for free on the net. The toolbox they use in their examples hides all the real information you would need to understand the examples. But that's not given.

If you really want to learn about Tcl/Tk refer to the books of Brent Welch. There you will find a lot of examples and, in case you need more Tcl/Tk source code to learn something, look at the applications available (f.e. at Scriptics.com)

I've read a lot of introductory computer books that have left me after reading with the question "now what?" This book definitely answers that question. The example of the pure Tcl PointCast clone was absolutly incredible! The Spynergy Toolkit library makes it surprisingly easy to put together these sorts of apps, without much fuss.

Wow! I had no idea that you could build such a variety of cool applications with the Tcl/Tk language. This book is the best I've seen from the point of view of teaching by example.

One of those programming language books where the printed source code is used to fill the pages. The authors to not show HOW things work. It's just a collection of well documented Tcl code. Most of the example are based on the Spynergy Toolbox, which is a rather "exotic" toolbox for Tcl/Tk and not at all a Tcl/Tk standard. Half of the book is a Tcl/Tk introduction. But if you want to learn Tcl/Tk use Brent Welch's book. The second half is nearl ONLY Tcl source.

Although not really an introductory book on Tcl/Tk, this should be the second book that everyone reads on the subject since it demonstrates the flexibility of Tcl/Tk as an inter/intra-net-glue in a client/server situation.

Although Brent Welch's book told me what Tcl/Tk was, it was this book that really opened up what I can do with it.