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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.
This year we are 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.
| Morning | Afternoon | Evening | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | Introduction to Tcl 1 | Introduction to Tcl 2 | |
| Replacing Make with Tcl | (Re)Introducing Odielib | ||
| Tuesday | Using Coroutines | Using Critcl | |
| Advanced Tcl: Namespaces and Packages | Advanced Tcl: TclOO Intro |
Critcl makes it easy to merge C code into your Tcl application. This can be used to speed up compute intensive parts of an application, link Tcl with an external library, or just for fun.
The tutorial will explain the theory and details of using Critcl.
This is an upgraded successor to Steve Landers tutorial about the same topic, adding in all the new things Critcl got over the last few years.
Required: Basic knowledge of Tcl
This session will describe how to modularize your scripts from simple procedures and the source command to using namespaces and packages as well as using upvar and uplevel to control access to data. The class will also cover techniques for separating GUI code from business-rule code including using the bind command and variable tracing, to bind actions to events. Examples include a Tower of Hanoi game and a Nuclear Reactor simulator.
Required: Basic knowledge of Tcl
Tcl 8.6 makes TclOO the standard Object Oriented language for Tcl.
Clif will describe the basics of OO:
Required: Knowledge of basic programming concepts. No previous experience with Tcl required.
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.
Required: Knowledge of basic programming concepts and very basic Tcl.
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.
Odielib aggregates many C accelerated routines for 3d math, geometry, cryptology, as well as common standalone C utilities into a single library. This course will give an overview of this library, show how to extend odielib, as well as navigate its Tcl based build system. It will further show how to implement custom Tcl Object types, build TclOO based C extensions, and utilize the Practcl build system.
This course will cover using the tools in the Practcl library to
replace make and nmake for complex projects which need to build on
multiple platforms. The course will cover strategies to work around
the quirks of popular extensions. Participants with laptops will
assemble their own kit in class, based on the odie project, which
includes Tk, TkImg, TWAPI, tdom, odielib, canvas3d and
sqlite.
24th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference