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David N. Welton

2005-06-08, 8:58 pm

Hi all,

I'm writing to let people know that the new Tcl Tutorial is shaping up
nicely, but we can still use your help. The Tcl Tutorial is being made
available as a way to explain Tcl to those who are new to the language,
something that the manual pages probably aren't as suited for.

What you can do to get involved:

* Check it out from CVS:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tcl co -P\
tcltutorial

* Read it. Look for errors. Look for things that don't make sense.

* If you feel so inclined, send in patches, corrections and improvements
to help us raise the quality of the tutorial (either here or the
tcl-core list, as the tutorial will ship with Tcl 8.5, I believe -
please not to me personally.)

* Write new material, or work on changing the structure of the tutorial.

* Improve the look and feel. I'm not a GUI whiz - right now it's very
simple and to the point. Improvements that don't take away from the
practical value are welcome.

* Other improvements - someone suggested that we link to on line man
pages from the various explanations of commands, which sounds like a
good idea to me.

Ciao,
--
David N. Welton
- http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/

Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting
- http://www.dedasys.com/
Arjen Markus

2005-06-09, 4:00 pm

"David N. Welton" wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing to let people know that the new Tcl Tutorial is shaping up
> nicely, but we can still use your help. The Tcl Tutorial is being made
> available as a way to explain Tcl to those who are new to the language,
> something that the manual pages probably aren't as suited for.
>


I know it is a bit rash, but should we start contemplating a similar
action for Tk already? I mean, even with just a few initial chapters
life for
novice Tk users could become very much easier ...

Regards,

Arjen
sigzero@gmail.com

2005-06-09, 8:58 pm

Arjen Markus wrote:
> "David N. Welton" wrote:
>
> I know it is a bit rash, but should we start contemplating a similar
> action for Tk already? I mean, even with just a few initial chapters
> life for
> novice Tk users could become very much easier ...
>
> Regards,
>
> Arjen


Maybe a list of what should go in it could be created on the wiki?

Robert

Arjen Markus

2005-06-10, 4:02 pm

sigzero@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Arjen Markus wrote:
>
> Maybe a list of what should go in it could be created on the wiki?
>
> Robert


Such an obvious option! Why didn't I think of that?
Just done so: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14307>

Regards,

Arjen
sigzero@gmail.com

2005-06-10, 8:58 pm

Arjen Markus wrote:
> "David N. Welton" wrote:
>
> I know it is a bit rash, but should we start contemplating a similar
> action for Tk already? I mean, even with just a few initial chapters
> life for
> novice Tk users could become very much easier ...
>
> Regards,
>
> Arjen


I am not sure where it should go but a quick intro to TkCon should go
on either the Tcl or Tk tutorial. That is a really neat application
that has helped me as a beginner.

Robert

David N. Welton

2005-06-10, 8:58 pm

Arjen Markus wrote:
> "David N. Welton" wrote:
>
>
>
> I know it is a bit rash, but should we start contemplating a similar
> action for Tk already? I mean, even with just a few initial chapters
> life for
> novice Tk users could become very much easier ...


I see enough things to do with the Tcl Tutorial to stay occupied for a
while, but if there's someone willing to step up and do the work for a
Tk tutorial, I don't think there would be any argument!

--
David N. Welton
- http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/

Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting
- http://www.dedasys.com/

sigzero@gmail.com

2005-06-11, 3:58 am

David N. Welton wrote:
> Arjen Markus wrote:
>
> I see enough things to do with the Tcl Tutorial to stay occupied for a
> while, but if there's someone willing to step up and do the work for a
> Tk tutorial, I don't think there would be any argument!
>


Take no offense because you are highly qualified but I would like
someone else as well since you ARE busy with the Tcl one.

Robert

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