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Arjen Markus. July 2017. How it started …. A question on . comp.lang.tcl. :. Somebody had stumbled over an error/unclear explanation in the online tutorial. I felt responsible. Current URL: . https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/tcltutorial.html. ID: 634799

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Reviving the Tcl tutorial

Arjen Markus

July 2017

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How it started …

A question on

comp.lang.tcl

Somebody had stumbled over an error/unclear explanation in the online tutorial

I felt responsible

Current URL:

https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/tcltutorial.html

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How it started - back in 2009

Clif

Flynt’s

TclTutor

– interactive, three levels,

Tk basedNot Internet- basedInitiative from Neil Madden, David Welton and me: current form

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Current form

Series HTML pages

Booklet with extension to

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The quiet years

The current tutorial is based on Tcl 8.5

Nothing much has changed

Maintenance? Who was doing it? Nobody to blame – such things just happen

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Fast forward: 2017

We have excellent introductions to all manner of subjects

Mark

Roseman’s

TkDocNathan Coulter’s elevator pitch (learning X in Y minutes)Ashok Nadkarni’s description of TclOO and now a new book!Main criticism: each follows its own style

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My contribution so far

Convert the HTML files

to Wiki markup

Modernize the text

and the examplesPut back a bit of interactivityAutomatic generation of a book from these pages(Front page by Neil Madden)

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A page …

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… from the book

Automatically generated

Not perfect yet, but very