Version 41 of Getting Started

Updated 2005-10-22 22:25:55

Obtaining Tcl/Tk

Look at places to find Tcl binaries and sources or the ones listed here for your convenience:

Binary distributions for common platforms

• 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 and Tk [L4 ]
• CVS on sourceforge cvs

Extras you should have

• What debugging tools are available to a Tcl programmer and Tcl Editors
• 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
• The soon to be bundled Tutorial [L5 ]

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/Tk: A Developer's Guide
• Book Tcl and the Tk Toolkit

Also available is the Tcl Tutor program and various Online Tcl and Tk Tutorials.

Web resources worth visiting include

• Dirty Dozen
• the comp.lang.tcl newsgroup

Advanced resources

• Arts and Crafts of Tcl-Tk programming

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