Terms and Conditions:

The author wrote:This online book is for personal use only. It cannot be copied to other web sites or further distributed in any form.

Book excerpts:

This book is an introduction to the main ideas of Tcl, a simple and powerful programming language. The first 9 chapters are available online for free.

Tcl is recommended, since it's a simple and general programming language, that can be used with success to develop applications in short time. Tcl is also a programmable programming language, that it's possible to combine to create programs, and to extend the language in itself in order to attack programming problems in a very direct way.

Chapters available online so far:

0. Front Cover
1. Introduction
2. Foundations
3. Everything Is A String
4. Lists
5. Strings
6. Lists And Strings
7. More On Procedures
8. Control Constructs
9. Extending Tcl In Tcl

Intended Audience:

To read this book, the only prior knowledge needed is some basic understanding of programming in any language: from C, to Python, Perl, and Lisp. Reader who understand the meaning of function, variable and other basic concepts should not experience problems reading this book.