If your looking for perl centric OO design then Damian Conway's Object Oriented Perl is exzactly what you are looking for.

I wish you luck on getting the kids into programming, and I'm on the side of 'perl as a first language' camp though there is disagrement on that opinion by some. I haven't been able to get my kids to touch code beyond html. There's nothing to win in coding I guess.

However I should mention Andrew L. Johnson's Elements of Programming with Perl. I own it only because I'm obsessive about buying perl books. As a starter language book it's pretty good. I haven't finished it yet but I see the last chapter even gets into OO basics. Just the basics. If your kids are over 14 or so this might be a good book to attempt to start them on. I'm finding it's helping me to get my perl 'jargon' a little better understood. It is just a little patronizing, so if you can't handle an author giving you 'kid glove' treatment stick with Randal Schwartz (aka merlyn) and Tom Christiansen's Learning Perl. Either way You'll need The Camel for reference. Unless you don't mind On-Line documentation.

coreolyn Duct tape devotee.

In reply to Re: Not-So-FAQ about learning Perl by coreolyn
in thread Not-So-FAQ about learning Perl by ichimunki

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