Re: Perl texts for college class?

William R Ward wrote:

! I teach Programming in Perl at De Anza College, in Cupertino
! California.  We have a problem which is that there don't seem to be
! any good textbooks for a college type of class.

I hope plugging my new book doesn't come off as tacky, but it is
relevant. 'Elements of Programming with Perl' (1999, Manning
Publications) is just shipping now and I wrote it to be a first
course in programming using Perl. Beyond the basics, it covers
regular expressions, references and nested data structures, using
and creating modules, and introduces OOP and abstract data structures.

The link in my sig will take to its home page (with TOC and example
chapters) and information on requesting an examination copy for course
adoption may be found at: http://www.manning.com/publicity.html

regards
andrew

-- 
Andrew L. Johnson   http://www.manning.com/Johnson/
      Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know,
      I'll use regular expressions.'  Now they have two problems.
          -- Jamie Zawinski, on comp.lang.emacs