Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Can anyone recommend a really good Perl/Tk book?

I've seen mixed reviews about O'Reilly's "Learning Perl/Tk" and wanted to know if there were any good alternatives to it.
Thanks!

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Re: A Good Perl/Tk Book?
by dvergin (Monsignor) on Mar 24, 2001 at 04:15 UTC
    You might find the following web-based resources helpful:

      Perl/Tk Tutorial at www.perl.com
      several scripts and articles at www.PerlTK.org,
      A tutorial from Suite101.com in 1, 2, 3 parts
      the Perl/TK FAQ,
      this tutorial which is part of this larger repository of Perl/TK stuff.

    And don't ignore the huge collection (over 90 separate files) of other docs on various pieces of the TK collection of tools and widgets -- all included in the installation.

Re: A Good Perl/Tk Book?
by busunsl (Vicar) on Mar 24, 2001 at 02:10 UTC
    Well, 'Learning Perl/Tk' isn't that bad.
    I heard/read there shall be a followup due this year, 'Programming Perl/Tk' (O'Reilly, of course)

    I'm still waiting for this...

      Actually, Programming Perl/Tk will be a Manning book. I see there's no mention of it on their web site, so I probably shouldn't go into any more details yet. The author is a monk and I'll leave it to him to discuss it further if he wants to.

      --
      <http://www.dave.org.uk>

      "Perl makes the fun jobs fun
      and the boring jobs bearable" - me

      I am reading this book and it seems pretty good. You can get it at fatbrain (and give a kickback to vroom) by clicking here
Re: A Good Perl/Tk Book?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 24, 2001 at 03:10 UTC
    Learning Perl/Tk is a great book. You can probably read it in a couple days and get a great deal of knowledge from it. You should definitely pick it up.