Re: Recommendations for a self-taught Perl programmer

I suggest two books. First, "Mastering Algorithms with Perl", and second, the first edition of "Advanced Perl Programming" by Sriram Srinivasan (not the second edition, which is a completely different book).

I also recommend that you learn Java. One reason is that many of the interesting books and articles about programming these days use Java for examples. Another is that Java has a lot of interesting OO design in it's core libraries, which will give you ideas you can use in perl.

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Re^2: Recommendations for a self-taught Perl programmer by j3 (Friar) on Nov 16, 2006 at 20:34 UTC
{snip} and second, the first edition of "Advanced Perl Programming" by Sriram Srinivasan (not the second edition, which is a completely different book). What are the diffs between the 1st and 2nd editions? Why choose the 1st edition over the 2nd?	[reply]
Re^3: Recommendations for a self-taught Perl programmer by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 16, 2006 at 20:58 UTC
Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd edition may help - all the answers are in Super Search :-D. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^4: Recommendations for a self-taught Perl programmer by j3 (Friar) on Nov 16, 2006 at 21:52 UTC
Whoops. Thanks perrin and GF. Should've searched first.	[reply]
Re^3: Recommendations for a self-taught Perl programmer by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 16, 2006 at 20:52 UTC
The first edition is the book I read. It introduces generally interesting concepts like database mapping, code generation, the flywieght object pattern, etc. all in code examples. The second edition is a completely different book, which I haven't read.	[reply]