Well House Consultants offer training courses in a variety of Open Source programming languages. Public courses will be run at our headquarters in Melksham, Wiltshire. Courses tailored to suit individual client needs can be run at your site. Typically we have good availability if you book three months in advance; occasionally we have short notice availability too, so please do ask!
Courses are all written by ourselves, and lead by our own tutor. We recommend that you limit courses to fifteen delegates so that the tutor has plenty of time to answer any questions that arise, and provide personal support during practical sessions.
Tcl is the oldest scripting language that we
teach - but there's nothing wrong with a bit of age. It's very much
a command based engineer's language, designed for integration into
applications written in C, and used in various big systems / products
in the Numerical Control and Integrated Circuit and chip and logic
design worlds. The Tk Graphic User Interface adds to Tcl scripts the
ability to produce user interaction windows and graphics, and the
Expect extension allows programmers to automate the control of other
programs which were designed for human, keyboard to screen use.
At
Well House Consultants, we run:
• A 5 day
Learning to Program in Tcl course.
No prior programming knowledge is assumed, and after a first day where we look
at the principles of how to program (viewed particularly from the Tcl aspect),
we combine the course with "Tcl Programming" which is also a course that gives
you plenty of time to learn.
• A 4 day public course on
Tcl programming.
This is more gently paced than most of our programming courses, as many of Tcl
our delegates are quite new to the world of computer programming. However, a
little prior programming experience is
assumed. The course includes some coverage of the Expect extension to Tcl, and
the Tk Toolkit and is suitable for delegates who will be making use of those extension as
well as those who will not; an extra session on the Thursday evening will cover
more Tk and Expect detail if required, and an extra practical session too.
• A 2 day public course on the
tk extension (wish). This course is for delegates new to us with good
prior Tcl knowledge who wish to add the Tk graphic user interface to their skill set. Note that
much of the material is included in our current Tcl course, so if you're attending that course
it's unlikely that you'll want the Tk course too.
If you've a group of three or more delegates who wish to learn about Tcl
at the same time, a
Specially Run Courses course can be arranged, and for larger groups we
can also run a
Private Courses course at your offices. Such courses are tailored to
meet your requirements - please contact us to discuss the detail of what you
need.
We use Expect on this live web site on pages such as our
server availability
test where we want to parallel ping a block of hosts. And we use
Tcl/Tk on similar internal scripts - they're vital to us in that when
we set up on site, a single test from one machine can check out our
whole network!
Tcl and Tk were written by John Ousterhout the best part of 30 years ago
and have had a chequered support history. But they're pretty stable,
useful, and these days are Open Source with a good community around them.