Re: Perl texts for college class?

Uri Guttman <[email protected]> writes:
> >>>>> "WRW" == William R Ward <[email protected]> writes:
>   WRW> So if anyone out there knows of a better textbook I'd really like to
>   WRW> hear about it...
> 
> what are you looking for? more examples of how to use perl? higher level
> code constructs? there are several books beyond the basics that could be
> used and a couple that are for advanced perl hackers IMO.
> 
> for perl idioms and solutions try
> 	effective perl programming
> 	perl cookbook
> 
> for algorithms
> 
> 	algorithms in perl (what else?)
> 
> for objects
> 	object oriented perl
> 
> for teaching to programmers
> 
> 	perl, the programmers companion
> 
> and check out my perl books page (see sig) for more books.

That's fine, but students in a night school class cannot generally
afford to buy a half dozen books at $30-50 each.  I need *one* book
that has some of all of the above, and is written as a *textbook* not
as a reference or teach-yourself book.

--Bill.


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