by Bert Wheeler
[Description from the above web site]
This book will take you through all the steps needed to become a productive programmer in Tcl/Tk 8. Right from guiding you through the basics to creating a stand-alone application, it provides complete explanation of all the steps along with handy tips and tricks.
The book begins with an introduction to the Tcl shell, syntax, variables, and programming best practices in the language. It then explores procedures and the flow of events with control constructs followed by advanced error trapping and recovery. From Chapter 4, a detailed study of string expressions and handling enables you to handle various string functions and use lists to expand the string functionality. The book then discusses in-depth the Tcl Dictionary and how to utilize it to store and retrieve data. File operations and Tk GUI handling are covered extensively along with a developing a real-world address book application to practice the concepts learned.
A practical, comprehensive cookbook to master the depths and breadths of Tcl/Tk 8 programming
What you will learn from this book :
Approach
This book provides a step-by-step approach to the Tcl/Tk language with the help of re-usable examples and images. It is a series of carefully organized, easy-to-follow, standalone recipes to solve your queries. Whether you go through the recipes chapter-wise or pick up any recipe randomly, you will find clear and complete explanation of the task covered in the recipe.
RLH - 2010-12-29 10:38:11
Did anyone do a review on this book? Edit: It is out in Feb 2011.
There was some discussion on comp.lang.tcl [L1 ]
MHo - 2011-03-09: Seems to me that this book is more oriented towards tcl newcomers. I didn't find many things new to me, with the exception of a good explanation of dictionaries. However, that doesn't mean that this book isn't good - the explanations are clear and understandable. But I'd expected something else... maybe I've ordered a little too fast.
siqsuruq - 2011-03-09 17:41:57
I have "TCL 8.5 Network Programming" from the same publisher. They print good books.