Version 58 of Getting Started

Updated 2006-12-12 13:58:03 by LV

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 distributions for Microsoft Windows: ActiveTcl [L1 ], WinTclTk [L2 ]
• links to Tclkit [L3 ] or dqkit [L4 ]
• links to Daniel Steffen's MacOS X Tcl releases [ TclTkAquaBI ] (though, in general, this has been pre-empted since Tcl/Tk 8.4.10 by the ActiveTcl releases).
• http://www.blastwave.org/ has binary packages for Solaris SPARC and x86.

Source code

• distributions on sourceforge Tcl and Tk [L5 ]
• CVS on sourceforge is the source code management system used to control changes to tcl, tk, and other extensions.

Extras you should have

• What debugging tools are available to a Tcl programmer and Tcl Editors
• links to tcllib - just one of many tcl/tk extensions available
• links explaining the extensions concept

How to make Tcl/Tk work on my computer

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 [L6 ]

Getting deeper

There are also a number of books available

• Informal Tcl Book Reviews
• Book Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (in print)
• BOOK Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers (in print)
• Book Effective Tcl - Writing Better Programs in Tcl and Tk
• 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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