TCL/TK for Real Programmers [With Contains Installation Files, Sample Code, Tools...]

by Clif Flynt

Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers fills a void in the current Tcl/Tk bookshelf. It is divided into an easy-to-use quick language reference, discussions of proper Tcl design technique, and a set of examples... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0122612051
• ISBN13: 9780122612053
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Length: 698 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A great book!

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.

Best general Tcl book so far

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

The only resource you will need to learn Tcl/Tk

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.

A great book for programmers to learn tcl/tk

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

Everything you need to get started in Tcl/Tk

"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.