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Subject: New Tcl/Tk book on stands - DN [1]

clif@msen.com (Carol Flynt) - 18 Dec 1998 - comp.lang.tcl

 This is somewhat self-serving, but should also be of interest to
 the group.

 My Tcl/Tk book: "Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers" is now available.  This
 is the second book in the Academic Press "Real Programmer" series,
 and is not connected with J Adrian Zimmer's "Tcl/Tk for Programmers"
 (another good book).

 The target audience for the book is a programmer who doesn't know
 Tcl/Tk, but needs to learn it (or learn about it) quickly, either for
 use on an existing Tcl/Tk project, or decide whether it's the tool to
 use on a new project.

 My goal was to create a book that would get folks up and running as
 quickly as possible, while still being a fairly complete reference.  To
 that end, the CD-ROM has several Tcl/Tk tutorials from the web, along
 with my TclTutor program to get folks programming fast.

 The book text has some tutorial material, but spends more time
 discussing how to use Tcl/Tk, with an emphasis on using namespaces and
 packages, and object style programming.

 There are also a few chapters with brief overviews of some of the
 more popular extensions and tools.

 The CD-ROM includes a set of chapters written by  David Beazley,
 Christopher Nelson, Donal K. Fellows, Carsten Zerbst, Doug Hughes,
 Andreas Kupries and me describing how they used Tcl/Tk in Real World
 (tm) projects.

 The CD-ROM also includes Tcl/Tk source code and binary distributions,
 copies of all the non-commercial extensions and packages reviewed,
 and examples from the book.

 I didn't cover everything I wanted to cover, but I think I made a
 decent stab at covering the language.

 More info, table of contents, buying instructions, etc are at:

 http://www.msen.com/~clif/RealProgrammer.html

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