Version 15 of Getting Started

Updated 2004-05-19 21:18:18 by schlenk

Obtaining Tcl/Tk

Binary distributions for common platforms (discuss relative merits)

• links to ActiveTcl [L1 ]
• links to Tclkit [L2 ] and dqkit [L3 ]
• links to Daniel Steffen's MacOS X Tcl releases [ TclTkAquaBI ]

Source code

• distributions on sourceforge Tcl [L4 ] Tk [L5 ]
• CVS on sourceforge cvs

Extras you should have

• links to debugging and editing tools
• links to tcllib tcllib
• links explaining the extensions concept

Learning Tcl/Tk

Once you've got Tcl/Tk on your computer there are a number of pages that will help you learn about Tcl and Tk

• What is Tcl
• Tcl intro
• Beginning Tcl
• Beginning Tk
• A User's Guide to Tcl/Tk

Getting deeper

There are also a number of books available

• Informal Tcl Book Reviews
• Book Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk
• book Effective Tcl - Writing Better Programs in Tcl and Tk
• BOOK Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers
• Book Tcl and the Tk Toolkit

Also available is the Tcl Tutor program and Online Tcl and Tk Tutorials. Alan Gauld's online tutorial "Learning to program" IS aimed at non-programmers. While the principle illustration language is Python, he also gives examples in Tcl (included with Python distributions) and Basic. See http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/ for the tutorial.

Web resources worth visiting include

• Dirty Dozen
• the comp.lang.tcl newsgroup

Advanced resources

• Arts and Crafts of Tcl-Tk Programming