new member seeks guidance!

[Duy Nguyen]

Hello everyone.  🙂  I’m new to the forums and would like to introduce myself.  I have just recently taken a promotion where I

will be primarily responsible for writing interfaces and providing minor cloverleaf system administration for my organization.  

I have limited mainstream programming language experience and my company has purchased the Computer Based Training Modules (CBT)

from Quovadx for me to learn:

-Intro to HL7

-Intro to XML

-TCL essentials

-TCL Cloverleaf Extensions

-UNIX essentials

-Cloverleaf System Administration

I would like to make a few contacts/friends here on this forum as mentors to make this transition as smooth as possible.

Are there any books, formal training, tips that you would recommend for someone new to the healthcare interface world?

Much thanks in advance,

Duy

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[Rob Parnell]

I suggest you buy the book Practical Programming in TCL and TK by Brent Welch.  This book is great for learning TCL and a good resource

[Rich Durkee]

Hate to disagree with a fellow CloverTecher, but despite many people proclaiming this book to be the TCL Bible, I did not like it at all. Only the first 100 or so pages out of 700+ are of much value. The use of {, [, ( and ” is poorly done. The examples aren’t all that great and the pace is too fast for a beginner. When I was learning TCL, I found that I had many questions that this book did not answer. It would be nice if there WERE a good beginners TCL book, but apparently TCL is not enough of a mainstream language for many authors to take the time and effort.

There are TCL tutorials on the Web – do a google search.

[Charlie Bursell]

There is a pretty good on-line tutorial at:

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

Also, TclTutor is good for practice although it does not cover anything above Tcl 8.3

http://www.cflynt.com/

Also, Quovadx does offer a 4-day Tcl Class.  But there is a caveat!

I can teach you Tcl in 4 days but I cannot teach you programming in 4 days!   We must assume you know how to think logically and understand basic constructs such as loops, variables, if statements, etc.

In other words, if you do not have some programming experience in any language, you will find Tcl difficult.  Otherwise, it’s a piece of cake  😀

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