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Tcl/Tk For Real Programmers (The For Real Programmers Series)

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I find Flynt's presentation of information very clear. He presents difficult topics in the order that makes the most sense, tells you just what you need to know without excess verbiage, and gives clear examples.

I've been using Tcl/Tk for over six years, and have several books on the subject, but this is the one I reach for first. Other books concentrate more on specialized topics like Web programming, but this is a solid text and reference for the basics. His reviews of extensions and other useful packages are also very helpful

This book is both a very good introduction for anyone wanting to learn Tcl/Tk quickly, and a valuable reference for experienced Tcl programmers. It is very readable, moves at a reasonable pace, and contains non-trivial real world examples showing the true power of Tcl/Tk. It also contains an index of commands used in the book's examples, which is helpful in getting a deeper understanding of how a command can be used. The included CD-ROM contains all the interpreters, libraries, and tutorials needed to get started. A very useful book indeed.

This book is somewhat imcomplete. It focuses too much on Tk and widgets and lacks a multitude of commands. I have found many more commands for Tcl on the web that are not even hinted to in this book. This book is especially not good for sockets programming.

This book is a pleasure to read and to use as a reference. Among its features are: use of a recent version of Tcl/Tk, an orderly presentation, straightforward an well-motivated examples, a useful index, a CD-ROM with easy-to-install and useful selections, good typesetting, and high quality paper. It's been a real hit in my Unix programming class.

"Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers" by Clif Flynt is everything you need to start writing applications in Tcl/Tk right away. If you're guessing that "Tcl/Tk" is some obscure Internet protocol or another hopeless Unix shell language, think again. Instead, Tcl/Tk is a cross-platform development system for rapidly producing prototypes and full-blown applications as scripts, embedded languages, and GUI-based systems. With more extensibility than Perl and a whole lot less hype than Java, you can write once and run on Win32, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, and all known variants of Unix. Brian Kernighan, a patriarch of the original "C" language, is one of the adherents who ranks Tcl/Tk ahead of Visual Basic for rapid application development.

I've been writing code for 8 years and despise books that think I need a lesson in theory. Luckily, Clif Flynt's book is targeted at people like me. I've read the first 4 chapters on Tcl and then skipped ahead to Tk. No problem. It does lack a certain amount of detail, but nothing a scan through the Tcl/Tk docs wont fill in. Plus the CD has some good examples and some interesting (although largely outdated) tools.

This book is a great introduction to tcl/tk for experienced programmers. Flynt even covers some of the particulars of different platforms.

This is a good book for people who have a sound knowledge ofTCL / Tk, and not for starters. I was myself a starter and couldnt learn mush out of the book. Author must learn how to present information. I felt the book was flooded unorderly with information. People like me could not follow his preaching's.

If you are going to buy only one book about tcl/tk it has to be this one . It goes right down to the point and teaches what you want to learn.

A clean and effective introduction to tcl/tk, with clear and not too easy examples. Guide you through the language, *before* letting you start with the hubrys of easy gui programming. Little bit obscure on obscure topics (e.g. how to use regular expressions), and sometimes look too far ahead of what it has already told you.