From: AlinP (AlinP@AOL.COM)
Date: 2 Jan 98, 06:00 EST
From: AlinP <AlinP@AOL.COM> Subject: Re: What is the best TCL book to start with? Alpha-D >>At 11:34 PM -0500 12/23/97, AlinP wrote: >> >>>I really like Alpha and the way it can be customized for virtually any >>>taste in editors but I don't really know which book on TCL I should read >>>first in order to start modest customization of Alpha. Can somebody help >>>me out with advice or correct me if my approach is wrong (i.e. learn TCL >>>first and then dive into the existing Alpha code). >> >>Book?!? There's a book? 8^) >> >>I, and I think Tom Scavo, and perhaps others, learned Tcl by fumbling >>around with Alpha's code until the piercing migraines went away. Perhaps >>Vince can offer some more formal instructional pointers, as he seems firmly >>ensconced in the Tcl community. >> >>__________________________________________________________________ >> Jonathan E. Guyer > >Brent B. Welch "Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Second Edition" + >CD-ROM for mac wintel & unix > >Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-616830-2 > >The second edition is a alot more clear on tcl issues than the draft you >can grab as PostScript at the tcl/tk ftp-site. > >/dario > Thanks for all of your recommendations. I did end up getting Brent B. Welch's "Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Second Edition" and I do like it very much. I can see however, that you can't learn just by reading so I will have to get my feet wet (heck...my whole body) and start reading Alpha code and making some changes just to figure out what is really going on. Of course, I'll keep a clean copy of Alpha handy for restoration purposes after I screw up my working version ;) Alin Pilkington