Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Tcl/Tk in A Nutshell by Jeff Tranter, Paul Raines ISBN: 1-56592-433-9 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good reference, but don't expect anything else.
Comment: As a reference goes, this is pretty good. I've noticed a certain hit or miss aspect of the O'Reilly Nutshell series. This one is more of a hit for me personally. Still, I'm already bumping into things I wish this book covered. stooop, for one thing. There isn't much here that you won't find in the online documentation, but it can be very nice to have a paper copy.
Basically, this book was what I was expecting it to be. Nothing more, nothing less.
Rating: 3
Summary: it's a nutshell book ... stuff you can get online
Comment: this is the tcl book i keep handiest, even though it doesn't offer me much of anything beyond the manual pages. what it does offer is a compendium of tcl, tk, expect, tix, blt, itcl, itk, tclx, and the like's references.
i've always been disappointed in tcl's online documentation. you can easily reproduce the lion's share of this book by just printing out the manual pages. however, having them bound and handy can be a relief. it does include some sample code (which you can typically find online), adding some value.
it's a nutshell book, though, and nutshell books are typically like this. o'reilly's had this series for years and they've always been of questionable value for some people (myself included). you wont learn a language this way, you wont even improve your programming this way, you'll just have a handy printed reference manual. i haven't yet found it to be incorrect (but i didn't go looking), so that's got to say something.
don't pay full price for this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: It's not a tutorial....
Comment: The previous reviewers seemed to think that this book would teach them the way of TCL/TK and were thoroughly disappointed. But what they failed to realize that this book is meant to be nothing more then a reference book. Perhaps if they had paid attention to the product description, they would have been prepared.
A thing to keep in mind, anytime an O'Reilly book has "...in a Nutshell" after the title... it's a reference book. Pure and simple. Say it with me, people. R-E-F-E-R-E-N-C-E. Not to be confused with "Master TCL/TK in 24 hours" or what have you.
So, keeping that in mind, as a reference book, it does a fantastic job as the rest have stated. Makes for a good "dictionary" so to speak.
 |
Title: Tcl/Tk Pocket Reference by Paul Raines ISBN: 1565924983 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
 |
Title: Exploring Expect by Don Libes ISBN: 1565920902 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
 |
Title: Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (4th Edition) by Brent Welch, Ken Jones, Jeffrey Hobbs ISBN: 0130385603 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
 |
Title: Tcl and the Tk Toolkit by John K. Ousterhout ISBN: 020163337X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 31 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
 |
Title: Effective Tcl/Tk Programming : Writing Better Programs with Tcl and Tk by Mark Harrison, Michael McLennan ISBN: 0201634740 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 08 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
