Re: Good Textbook for Teaching Perl?

You might want to have a look at Effective Perl Programming (Joseph N. Hall and Randal L. Schwartz) for material to supplement Learning Perl. In a nutshell, the book helps students develop Perl fluency by discribing idiomatic Perl usage, problem solving, and outlining quite a few gotchas.

~~Alternatively, even though I would be interested in seeing the reply, you could /msg merlyn or email him at merlyn@stonehenge.com. He might not see this node otherwise. (I'm only half kidding.)~~

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Update: I'm currently busy eating the works I struck out above. I can't believe it took me over 16 minutes to write my post.

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•Re: Re: Good Textbook for Teaching Perl? by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 08, 2003 at 22:28 UTC
Oh, if the problem is that the llama book is not enough material, my new alpaca book will be out early June, picking up right where the llama left off. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^3: Good Textbook for Teaching Perl? (peek preview of new book?) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Apr 13, 2003 at 15:27 UTC
A lot of people are very curious about that one, actually - it came up at the Cologne.pm meeting this week for example. Do you think you can post a (maybe just rough) table of contents for the book? Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
•Re: Re^3: Good Textbook for Teaching Perl? (peek preview of new book?) by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 16, 2003 at 18:19 UTC
Well, you can see the whole book already. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]