There are two books that I'd recommend for teaching Perl to people with no programming experience. They are Elements of Programming with Perl and Perl for Web Site Management. You've already said that the first of those doesn't meet your requirements as it doesn't teach enough programming theory - the second teaches even less (it's more of a "getting things done book"). The best book for teaching Perl in a more formal "computer science" manner is probably Perl: The Programmer's Companion - tho' I seem to remember that it expected the reader to have at least some prior programming experience.

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In reply to Re: Beginning Programming with Perl by davorg
in thread Beginning Programming with Perl by Adam Kensai

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