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Summary: A pointer to the books home page.
Review: Please see http://www.sunlabs.com/~bwelch/book/
for eratta and information about future editions.
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Summary: The 2nd edition is up-to-date with Tcl/Tk 8.0
Review: The 2nd edition describes Tcl/Tk 8.0 and has chapters that summarize the changes between Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0 and the current releases. I note that my publisher says the book covers the "new Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1" releases, which are actually quite old. I work in the Tcl/Tk group at Sun and have the inside track on what it offers.
There is a typo on the back cover. My home page url should be http://www.beedub.com/
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Summary: The best Tcl book for web sockets.
Review: The author writes great short programs to illustrate the features of Tcl. In particular one may point to pages 188-9, "The Echo Service." Another really short and useful program is on page 128, "URL Decoding." Without this book one might have thought that Tcl, like some other scripting languages, was verbose and opaque, but Welch shows how short and clear it is, and how powerful.
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Summary: Contents fine, but book un-usable
Review: The contents of the book are reasonable, but not great. All too often, there is a reliance on looking at supplied examples, rather than actually giving definitions and specifics. Both are necessary, so I found that having Ousterhouts definitive book beside this one to be useful. The two complement each other nicely. BUT... the book is basically un-usable because of the lousy binding! After only light use over a couple of weeks, the darn thing is falling apart! Pages are dropping out of it. I pride myself on taking good care of my books, especially ones that I plan on using for a long time. None the less, this one is fragile, preventing me from recommending it to anyone.
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Summary: confusing
Review: This book may be great as a reference book but falls far short of a book for initial learning of TCL/TK. I have programmed in C and have written UNIX shell scripts and still find the book very confusing.
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Summary: Excellent Reference book!
Review: This is a very good reference book on an increasingly complex Scripting Language. Helps clarify a lot of things and you'll know where to look for what. However, Is most useful when used in Conjunction with the "Effective Tcl/Tk Programming" book.
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Summary: Computing Graduate
Review: This is one of my favourite computing books. After you've studied a couple 3GL system language's and played with Perl & scripting. Understand computing concepts, (Tcl probably isn't too good for random beginners or people who just don't like the paradigm). If you're into computing and want.., then go for this one. When you are the only person on campus doing-knowing any Tcl / Tk, you had better get the right book. I mailled Brent with a question and sure enough he got back to me. (try that with Lara Lemay). So for such a good book and service - 5 star award.
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Summary: Computing Graduate
Review: This is one of my favourite computing books. After you've studied a couple 3GL system language's and played with Perl & scripting. Understand computing concepts, (Tcl probably isn't too good for random beginners or people who just don't like the paradigm). If you're into computing and want.., then go for this one. When you are the only person on campus doing-knowing any Tcl / Tk, you had better get the right book. I mailled Brent with a question and sure enough he got back to me. (try that with Lara Lemay). So for such a good book and service - 5 star award.
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Summary: The best book out there on TCL
Review: This is the best book I've seen out there that covers TCL in detail in a straighforward, no-nonsense fashion. I had to learn this scripting language for a client and after sifting through other texts for information, I've always returned to this one for guidance. It has real examples in it instead of theoretical clap-trap.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This is the only one source that my colleaque and I rely on for the Tcl programming aspect. The presentation is superb and the examples abundant, and learning Tcl has never been made easier. Highly recommended as a tutorial and a reference.
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