-V- What training material is available?

From: FAQ General information


A. Training courses, materials, etc.

1. A text book by John K. Ousterhout is available from Addison Wesley.
It's title is _Tcl and the Tk Toolkit_ and has an ISBN of 0-201-63337-X.
The first printing was in April of 1994.  The third printing
was available in mid to lat 1994.  The book primarily covers Tcl 7.3 and Tk 3.6.

2. A physical copy of the Tcl / Tk distributed documentation is
available at the Northside Copy Central in Berkeley under the name "TCL" and
is titled "Tcl/Tk Documents".  Northside Copy Central is at 1862 Euclid
with a phone of (510) 849-9600.  It costs approx. $15-$20 for the book in
a spiral bound, pink cover, clear plastic front and back format.

3. An Expect tutorial by Don Libes has been published.  Here is a blurb
from the author himself:

Title: Exploring Expect
Subtitle: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Applications
Publisher: O'Reilly and Associates, Inc
ISBN: 1-56592-092-2
Pages: 602
Email orders: <URL:mailto:order@ora.com>
HTTP orders:  <URL:http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/ordering/index.html
Credit card orders (M-F 6am-6pm PST): (800) 889-8969 / (707) 829-0515
Mailing Address: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
	         103A Morris Street
	         Sebastopol, CA US 95472

For all of you who thought that the Expect man page was too long and too
terse at the same time, this book provides relief.  "Exploring Expect"
is an introduction and comprehensive tutorial to Expect.  Numerous
examples are provided and explained, demonstrating how to save you time
and money.  Example topics include how to write patterns, do signal
handling, use Expect as a telnetable daemon, and use Expect with Tk and
other Tcl extensions.

The book also includes an innovative introduction to Tcl - if you've
had trouble using Tcl before, all of a sudden, it will make a lot more
sense.  And while Exploring Expect concentrates primarily on using
Expect with Tcl, programmers attempting to automate interactive
programs using C, Perl, Python, or any other language will find this
book helpful because many of the concepts underlying Expect-like
programming are common to all languages.

Expect book description:
	<URL:http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/catalog/expect.desc.html

Front cover art:
	<URL:http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/catalog/expect.gif

Errata sheet:
	<URL:ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/errata


4. Additional books specifically dealing with Tcl are in the process of
being written. For instance, by Brent Welch, _Practical Programming in
TCL and TK_ is to be published by Prentice Hall.

5. Computerized Processes Unlimited has a combined Tcl/Tclx reference
manual for sale.  They also offer courses on Tcl.
(See also "tcl-commercial-faq") for more information.

6. NeoSoft Communications Services teaches introductory and advanced
Tcl courses on site or at their location in Houston, Texas.
(See also "tcl-commercial-faq") for more information.


(See tcl-faq/bibliography/part1) for details of more books magazine
and journal articles, proceedings papers, and thesises relating to the
Tcl family of languages.  (See tcl-faq/commercial-uses/part3) for details of
classes offered commercially.

B.  Time-related seminars, conferences, sessions.

1. There have been, in the past, seminars at Usenix and at the MIT X
conference taught by John Ousterhout and others on Tcl and Tk.
(See also "tcl-faq/part02") for the URL to the slides from the most recent
of these presentations by John.

2. University of Maryland Baltimore County is offering
CMSC491C - Special Topics in Computer Science - Scripting Languages.
This is an intro to scripting languages with an emphasis on Perl and
Tcl, but also mentioning sed, awk, etc.  Taught by Bob Tarr, Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 5:30-6:45pm.  Call (410) 455-2336 (Continuing
Education Department) to sign up as a special non-degree candidate.
Info provided by <URL:mailto:finin@cs.umbc.edu> (Tim Finin).

3. On October 4, 1994, the First International Obfuscated Tcl Code Contest
was announced by <URL:mailto:karrels@sol.acs.uwosh.edu> (Edward L. Karrels).
The rules, judges, dates, etc. remain to be determined.  Contact Mr. Karrels
for more details.

4. The third annual Tcl/Tk workshop, co-sponsored by Unisys, Inc.
and the USENIX Association, will be held July 6-8, 1995 in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.  The workshop will consist of invited addresses by
researchers, oral presentations, formal and informal demonstrations.

The deadline for original paper and demos is March 3, 1995.  Contact
<URL:mailto:tclpapers@usenix.org) for details concerning format of submissions,
etc.

Registration details can be obtained by contacting
<URL:mailto:w95@system9.unisys.com>
or
Tcl/Tk Workshop 95
c/o Unisys Canada Inc.
61 Middlefield Road 
Scarborough, Ontario, M1S 5A9
Canada
(416) 297-2520  (FAX)
Details in terms of format of papers, etc. can 

5. The Software Technology Group is presenting a hands-on Tcl/Tk
course in the Boston area in January and February.  It is a two day
course on developing user interfaces with Tcl and Tk.  It is presented
by Dr. Lawrence B. Medwin.  The sessares are:

    January Sessions:
        Thursday and Friday, Jan. 12-13, 1995.
        Monday and Tuesday, Jan 23-24, 1995.
    February Sessions:
        Thursday and Friday, Feb. 9-10, 1995.
        Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 20-21, 1995.

    Location:
        At the offices of SAIC, 486 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, MA.


Tuition is $895 per student, refundable 3 weeks before the start of the
course.  Please register at least 3 weeks before the
first day of the course. To register, send the registration information,
with a check for tuition, to:
          Software Technology Group
          5 Mead Terrace
          Acton, MA 01720

Software Technology Group reserves the right to reschedule or cancel
sessions with insufficient enrollment.   For more information, write to
<URL:mailto:larrym@world.std.com> or call the Software Technology Group at
(508) 620-5335.

Registration information:

          Name, Title
          Company
          Address
          City, State, Zip
          Phone, FAX, email address
          Preferred Sessions (first and second choice)

6. Software Development West '95

Developers and technical customers are cordially invited to visit
the SCO booth at SD.  We'll be showing interesting software such
as Lotus Notes, XVT application development system, Microfocus
COBOL, and some technology previews of SCO's next generation
"Everest" development system, including Visual Tcl.

Where:  Moscone Center, SF

When:  February 14-16

Technical Session:
        SCO's David Young will present a technical session on
        SCO Visual Tcl, Wed Feb 15 @ 9AM in Rm. 232

For more information contact:
        Brett Matesen, Product Marketing Mgr, Development Systems
        brettm@sco.com