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One of the best reasons to attend the Tcl conference is the
tutorial track. These sessions are presented by Tcl experts -
people who write the packages, write the books, and
develop applications on a daily basis. They share their
knowledge of Tcl/Tk and the practical experience in developing large,
robust applications. Whether you're new to Tcl or experienced,
these sessions will help you develop your projects more quickly.
Free Tutorials
This year we'll be offering FREE tutorials Monday and Tuesday
evenings. These will be 1-2 hour lectures on special topics.
Anyone is welcome to attend the evening lectures, whether they
are a member of the conference or not.
Tutorial Schedule
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Introduction to Tcl 1
( Clif Flynt ) |
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This course gives you all the knowledge you need to produce useful
Tcl scripts, as well serving as a framework for exploring more advanced
features of Tcl. We'll explore basic Tcl syntax and commands, string
processing, data structure manipulation, basic process interaction, and file
handling.
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Tips of a Tcl Master
( Sean Woods ) |
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Sean brings years of Tcl experience and techniques for getting
the most out of the interpreter. He'll discuss tricks for
making your code easy to maintain and faster to develop.
This lecture will concentrate on using TclOO and CoRoutines.
Bring a laptop for a hands-on learning experience. |
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Introduction to Tcl 2
( Clif Flynt ) |
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This course gives you all the knowledge you need to produce useful
Tcl scripts, as well serving as a framework for exploring more advanced
features of Tcl. We'll explore basic Tcl syntax and commands, string
processing, data structure manipulation, basic process interaction, and file
handling.
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Web Services (client and server) in Tcl
( Gerald Lester ) |
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This tutorial covers how to implement and call web services from Tcl
using the Web Services for Tcl package (http://core.tcl.tk/tclws). The
following will be presented:
- How to read a WSDL.
- How complex data structures are represented using dictionaries.
- How control the behavior of the client and server using options.
- How to implement WS-Security and other WS-
- addons.
- How to use the Server Side package with a variety of web servers.
- How to provide the implementation of an existing WSDL using the
Server Side package -- with a little help from the Client Side
package.
If at all possible, please bring a notebook with one of the supported
web servers and the Web Services for Tcl package installed.
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Introduction to Tk 1
( Gerald Lester ) |
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With remarkably little code, you can add a full-featured GUI to
your application that will have a platform-native appearance on Windows,
Unix, and Macintosh. In this course we'll explore all the Tk interface
components, learn how to modify and extend their behaviors, and see how to
put them together into complex multi-window applications.
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Advanced Tcl: Intro to SQL, TDBC, and Windows programming
( Clif Flynt ) |
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SQL is the lingua-franca of databases. It's standardized syntax can
be used to describe a schema and interact with a database engine. It's supported
by all modern Database engines.
Unfortunately, every modern database engine has it's own API library to
pass the SQL commands to the engine.
TDBC provides a Tcl with a uniform view of all database engines. This removes
the need to rewrite code that used OraTcl or SybTcl when you switch to SQLite or
MySQL.
Applications that use TDBC are portable across database environments as well as
operating system environments.
Speaking of other operating systems, there's Windows. Writing a Tcl script
to work across platforms is easy, but there's less information on writing
applications that integrate with Windows.
Clif will discuss using tcom and twapi to talk to .COM and .NET objects, and
creating Tcl scripts that can be invoked from other applications via .COM and SOAP calls.
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Tcl Certification Test
( Open ) |
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One chance to get a Tcl/Tk Basic Certification cheaply.
Details are still being
ironed out. You will need to register at the conference to take the test.
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Working with Wibble
( Andy Goth ) |
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Wibble is a pure Tcl web server. It's small, lightweight and easily
configured and extended.
Andy will explain how to set up and run his application.
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Advanced Tk: GUI appearance
( Jeff Hobbs ) |
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There's a big difference between a quick and dirty GUI and a
good looking professional GUI. Jeff will explain the newer features
Tk has added to create a solid GUI you can be proud to send to a
customer, including:
- Controlling the toplevel
- Themed widgets (tile/ttk)
- 8.5 widget enhancements
- Subtle platform differences
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Contact Information
fox@nscl.msu.edu
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