Fellow Monks,

Now that I'm pretty familiar with basic Perl syntax, I started reading "Advanced Perl Programming" (the Black Panther book). The preface of the book has whetted my appetite for learning some fundamentals of programming theory.

I suppose I could continue to learn programming theories by doing and seeing like I am with Perl. But I'm guessing it might be more efficient (but perhaps less fun?) to go to the guts of the matter and pick up texts that explore programming fundamentals more directly.

For those of you without computer science degrees, how did you become experts at programming? Was it through the applied use of a programming language or through the study of more abstract programming theory, or a little bit of both?

Also, can anyone recommend some good texts that cover programming fundamentals?

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In reply to Delving Deeper into the World of Programming by nysus

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