Tcl/Tk for Programmers: With Solved Exercises that Work with Unix and Windows 1st Edition

The only thing missing is at end of chapters there are no exercises where you can put all the concepts learned into one program. They have good explanation and exercises to explain concepts but it would have been nice if they had complete programs as exercises at the of chapters to test your knowledge of all the concepts learned.

Nice material on introduction and especially the exercises at the end of the chapters to test your knowledge hands-on. This book is relevant even though the current Tcl version has moved on.

Good!!!

Mind you, as the title suggests, this shouldn't be your very first experience programming. It's not a "learn Tcl in 7 days" book. You want to have some other languages under your belt first. It's aimed at someone who will digest a lot of information fairly quickly. The writing is fun and humorous. The very first chapters are essential, as Zimmer does everything he can to explain the nuts and bolts behind braces, quotes and variable substitutions. He uses these core pieces of Tcl in ways you will likely never encounter in actual Tcl/Tk programs, but serves the purpose of breaking them, soliciting head-scratchingly unintuitive results, etc. so that when you start coding yourself, you wil know to be careful with your syntax-- know what the pitfalls are and avoid them. If you are patient enough to go through all of the exercises, you will have a very strong and solid understanding of this fantastically elegant and programmer-friendly language. The only part I don't like is that the index at the back of the book is too brief. The book partly makes up for this by having 2 more indices used to locate specific functions and procedures. I recommend you also invest in the O'Reilly Nutshell or Pocket Guide books, because this book is more tutorial than reference in nature.