AOLserver and Tcl Crash Course

Draft Outline

• ADP Pages
  • Hello <Yourname> - Simple page, user submits form, displays name
    • DOSSY: Create this example with very simple Tcl.
  • Tcl Basics
    • Explain Minimalist Syntax
      • Commands, Subcommands (Evaluated and Non-Evaluated)
      • Working with variables set, expr
    • Control Structures
      • if, while, etc.
      • procedures
  • Fetching GET and POST
  • Including / Referring to other pages
  • Controlling Output
  • Databases
    • Defining the connection from as a pool in the config.tcl
    • Selecting from the pool
    • Executing Queries, Retrieving Values

Questions

• Where does ADP excel?
• What practices should PHP, ASP, JSP developers stop doing?
• How can one use Tcl to write very concise and readable code?
• How does one efficiently separate pages into MVC components if the wanted?