Re: Perl Recommended Reads
by tobyink (Canon) on Jan 31, 2014 at 00:29 UTC
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Re: Perl Recommended Reads
by tangent (Parson) on Jan 31, 2014 at 01:53 UTC
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Excellent links!
Thank You
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Re: Perl Recommended Reads
by davido (Cardinal) on Jan 31, 2014 at 02:10 UTC
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The important thing is to just keep reading. Occasionally you'll come across something really amazing, and sometimes you'll find one that is a total disappointment. Along the way you'll pick up a lot of knowledge (or at least book-smarts).
I used to keep up a list on my home node. It's still there, and probably worth checking, but the list is really out of date; there dozens if not scores missing.
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Thank you Dave!
Awesome links!
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Re: Perl Recommended Reads
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Jan 31, 2014 at 01:59 UTC
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Yes, this question is asked periodically, and it’s always a pleasure to recommend:
Higher-Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus (the Monastery’s Dominus).
It’s available for free download from http://hop.perl.plover.com/.
Hope that helps,
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I never heard of this one! The reviews look good
Thank You!
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Re: Perl Recommended Reads
by boftx (Deacon) on Jan 31, 2014 at 01:20 UTC
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Although not about Perl, I have always felt that The Mythical Man Month should be required reading for all programmers/managers/scrum masters/etc.
It helps to remember that the primary goal is to drain the swamp even when you are hip-deep in alligators.
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I had to look again at my syllabus for class. Thats the book I will reading this semester. Thank you
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Re: Perl Recommended Reads
by Discipulus (Canon) on Jan 31, 2014 at 09:57 UTC
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Thank you Discipulus I will check out these books, today.
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Re: Perl Recommended Reads
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Jan 31, 2014 at 13:48 UTC
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There are also outstanding concept books that should be on your reading list: the Stevens networking series, a classic algorithms book, the Knuth Art of Computer Programming series to name a few.
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I agree.
Thank you MidLifeXis
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I didn't see it mentioned -- so here is my choice.
By far the book I use most is O'Reilly's "Programming Perl". "Learning Perl" with lots of bookmarks and dirty pages is second.
On a related note, I'm looking for a book on graphics. A few years ago, I bought "Mastering Perl/Tk" and got a few useful things working. But then Tkx came out and I'm lost again. I have studied the much-touted TkDocs tutorial, but it leaves too many holes for me. ActiveState and others list all of the functions and their options, but I can't bridge the gaps. I saw and bought another book recently, O'Reilly's "Perl Graphics Programming", but was disappointed that it doesn't even mention either Tk or Tkx.
What else is out there that am I missing?
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Re: Perl Recommended Reads
by hawtin (Prior) on Jan 31, 2014 at 21:06 UTC
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There are many excellent books available, its not Perl based and is a few years old but still one of the best computer science books of all time is "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson & Sussman (see this link).
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Re: Perl Recommended Reads
by kcott (Archbishop) on Feb 01, 2014 at 05:26 UTC
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G'day stryda42,
As a more general resource, you might consider looking over the dozens of titles in Perl section of the O'Reilly website: Perl - O'Reilly Media
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