The intro Perl course book was bad before, and it was bad after. Well, at least the "after" book could call itself a book, it actually had some prose in it. But both books still had the typical SUN style of education. "Day1: Perl also has operators. Here are all the operators."

I've advised my students to take a black marker and mark complete chapters black. (Like the utter bullshit they managed to write about 'local' - but that's a general peeve of mine, why do introduction books teach 'local' in the same breath as 'my' - and why do they have the tendency to delay introducing 'my' until they start talking about subs? That the PODs do so doesn't mean it's appropriate to copy).

Abigail