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Summary:
Sams Teach Yourself Tcl/Tk in 24 Hours quickly empowers you to create your own programs using the popular open-source Tcl language and the Tk toolkit. Using their classroom-proven methods, and the success of their popular Tcl/Tk Cookbook, the authors provide you with an understanding of the Tcl language, and guide you through the use of the Tk toolkit, enabling you to create your own Tcl/Tk programs quickly and easily. The 24 1-hour lessons include Tcl expressions, control structures, lists and arrays, using WISH, interacting with the operating system, creating widgets, building your own user interfaces, using Tcl/Tk to interface to legacy programs and systems, creating Web applications with Tcl/Tk, and using Tk with Perl and C.

Reviewed by John Osterhout, the creator of the TCL language
Tcl/Tk is being adopted and endorsed by companies such as AOL and Cisco
CD-ROM contains Tcl/Tk, add-on packages from Scriptics and the Tcl Consortium, plus all examples and source code

Table of Contents:

Part I: Essential Tcl: Hour 1: What Is Tc/Tk?; Hour 2: Getting Started with Tcl; Hour 3: Working with Tcl Commands; Hour 4: Controlling Your Program; Hour 5: Working with Lists; Hour 6: Exploring Arrays; Hour 7: Building Your Own Procedures; Hour 8: Manipulating Strings; Hour 9: Interacting with the Operating System
Part II: The Toolkit (Tk): Hour 10: Getting Started with Tk; Hour 11: Adding Behavior to Your Widgets; Hour 12: Understanding Intercommunication Commands; Hour 13: Using the Tk Text Widget; Hour 14: Doing More with the Text Widget; Hour 15: Getting Started with the Canvas; Hour 16: Using Canvas Commands; Hour 17: Working with Images in the Canvas
Part III: Advanced Applications: Hour 18: Using C with Tc/Tk; Hour 19: Creating Tc/Tk Interfaces to Legacy Applications; Hour 20: Understanding Object-Oriented Programming with Tc/Tk; Hour 21: Programming with Perl/Tk; Hour 22: Adding Tc/Tk Extensions