Book Recommendations

[Nic Gibson]

On 16/10/2007, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Nic Gibson wrote:
> > > > Now, I'm asking for the same sort of recommendations for an
> > > > advanced perl course. The topics in the course are (heavily
> > > > summarised):
> > > > object orientation
> > > > error handling
> > > > dbi
> > > > tk
> > [and I've got these books]
> > Object Oriented Perl
> > Perl Cookbook
> > Perl Medic
> > Intermediate Perl
> > Perl Hacks
> > Perl Best Practices
> > Advanced Perl Programming
>
> Two more that won't help much for the course but should be in every
> advanced perl programmer's bookshelf are Higher Order Perl and
> Mastering Regular Expressions.  Of the latter, I've not read the 2nd
> edition but the 1st was excellent.
>
> Although HOP might be a bit mind-blowing if you're only just stepping up
> to 'Advanced' level.

HOP is lovely (ok, I used to be computational linguistics person and
this may be why I think this) but it's probably OTT for these
students. I generally drag mastering regular espressions along to
every course I teach, perl or otherwise.

nic

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