[Tutor] Three questions about Python (and bundled software) in general

[Danny Yoo]

> > What is Tkinter, and what is Tcl/Tk  ??
> >
> > For Tcl/Tk I imagine, from what I read in Alan tutorial, that Tcl/Tk
> > is some sort of "foundation", kind of basis for "translating" to
> > machine/binary code,
>
> Not quite. Tcl is a completely separate programming language. Tcl stands
> for "Tool Control Language" and Tk stands for "Toolkit". The Tk toolkit
> is a set of programming objects that the Tcl programmer can use to
> create GUI programs (with windows, menus etc).


Hi Tadey,

I think Alan's tutorial covers Tcl in some depth:

    http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/


But there another tutorial written by Phil Greenspun, "Tcl for Web Nerds":

    http://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/

It's a great resource if you want to dive into Tcl.


Good luck!