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- Cover Type: Paperback with 746 pages
- Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Edition: 1st Edition January 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1565927168
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1565927162
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.8 x 1.4 inches
- Weighs: 2.7 pounds
Reader Reviews
I picked this book up and learned enough from it to write (in a few weeks) a nice little GUI-based data display program that's being used to monitor train schedule adherence at the US's second-largest subway system. So obviously the book is useful. But it's also a bit frustrating. The index is almost completely useless; 90% of the time I do not find anything remotely related to the word on the page that it's supposed to be on. Sometimes if I go back and forth a dozen pages I think I find the actual page. There are a fair number of typos that I discovered (most of which are, admittedly, corrected on O'Reilly's web site.) There's this bizarre example of having two MainWindows in the same application, something that mislead *me* into trying the same thing before I discovered how awfully awkward it was. So while the book was excellent for getting me "jump-started" into the world of Perl/Tk, I do not use it much as a reference anymore. Now that I know the ropes, the man pages get me to the information much more quickly than this book.
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