Sams Teach Yourself Tcl/Tk in 24 Hours quickly empowers you to create your own programs using the popular open-source Tcl language and the Tk toolkit. Using their classroom-proven methods, and the success of their popular Tcl/Tk Cookbook, the authors provide you with an understanding of the Tcl language, and guide you through the use of the Tk toolkit, enabling you to create your own Tcl/Tk programs quickly and easily. The 24 1-hour lessons include Tcl expressions, control structures, lists and arrays, using WISH, interacting with the operating system, creating widgets, building your own user interfaces, using Tcl/Tk to interface to legacy programs and systems, creating Web applications with Tcl/Tk, and using Tk with Perl and C.
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Sams Teach Yourself Tcl/Tk in 24 Hours quickly empowers you to create your own programs using the popular open-source Tcl language and the Tk toolkit. Using their classroom-proven methods, and the success of their popular Tcl/Tk Cookbook, the authors provide you with an understanding of the Tcl language, and guide you through the use of the Tk toolkit, enabling you to create your own Tcl/Tk programs quickly and easily. The 24 1-hour lessons include Tcl expressions, control structures, lists and arrays, using WISH, interacting with the operating system, creating widgets, building your own user interfaces, using Tcl/Tk to interface to legacy programs and systems, creating Web applications with Tcl/Tk, and using Tk with Perl and C.
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Venkat V.S.S. Sastry, PhD is lecturer in scientific computing at RMCS, Cranfield University, Shrivenham, United Kingdom where he teaches commercial and academic courses on programming using C, Tcl/Tk and other software packages. Venkat Sastry played a significant role in developing a knowledge based front end to NAG Software Library in early 90's, and is currently the principal architect of developing this work further using Tcl/Tk. He is the co-author of the Tcl/Tk Cookbook. Lakshmi Sastry is principal applications designer and developer, Advanced Interactive Systems Group, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. She has extensively used and reviewed commercial and public domain 2D graphical user interface development tools and has authored several reviews for the benefit of UK academic community She is a co-author of the Tcl/Tk Cookbook, and is a member of IEEE.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Quick and Practical Introduction,
By Peter Gordon (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Tcl/Tk in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)
A very good book to get you started programming in Tcl/TK and see some fast results. There is sufficient amount of detail to learn the basics. What I liked most is the way the examples are presented, you are encouraged to experiment and it is great and easy with Tcl/TK. At first I wanted to see more detailed coverage of the various options, but the book encourages you to use the Tcl help files and - a good habit to develop when you get into more serious programming. The Q&A and excercises help quite a bit when you are learning on your own. I have been able to adopt a lot of their examples to a demo program for my work.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
For the beginner or the Pro,
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Tcl/Tk in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)
This book is great for the advanced user that just want to obtain some knowledge about the language or for the beginner that wants to learn an easy, multi-platform and internet-friendly language (easier than Java). *BUT* if you have other SAM'S "Teach yourself (X language) in 24 hours" you'll notice that this book seems to be more 'fast paced' than the others from SAM'S.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for fast learning; not so good for reference,
By Asim (california, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Tcl/Tk in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)
I started off with the Welch book but quickly realised that it was not for beginners and switched off to this one. I think for a quick ramp up this book is good enough but you definitely need another book to take you to the next level.A word of caution/Public service message: Listing 8.5 on page 133 has a wrong analysis. I would have loved to put this in a errata but it doesn't exist. Luckily the said error is about globs which many people don't use anyway.
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