I'm a one-man computer science department at a small liberal arts college, and teach perl regularly.

In addition to the other sources mentioned, I've found Simon Cozen's online book Beginning Perl particularly helpful, including the short pieces on CGI, debugging, and the various helpful appendices.

And while I appreciate the many good things about merlyn's Learning Perl text, I think the choice of leaving out how to invoke an object method fairly problematic, especially since most CPAN modules rely on this syntax. In my opinion, some discussion of object oriented methods are a necessary part of an intro programming course these days; they aren't just an "advanced" feature.

- barrachois

In reply to Re: Teaching Perl by barrachois
in thread Teaching Perl by compgeek78

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