Re: Perl texts for college class?

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Bill 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.

> The "llama" book (_Learning Perl_) is just not good enough - after
> about halfway through the quarter we run out of topics in it, and it
> doesn't address key Perl concepts like references, modules, and object
> oriented programming in Perl.

> So if anyone out there knows of a better textbook I'd really like to
> hear about it...


   A book that has not been mentioned yet (probably because
   it is new) is "Elements of Programming with Perl",
   by Andrew Johnson.

      http://www.browsebooks.com/Johnson/


   I reviewed many chapters some months ago, and just the other
   day got a final, bound book.

   I haven't looked at the whole book yet, but it does have
   chapters covering references, modules, and object
   oriented programming (though the OO part is rather thin).


   The book is meant to be for non-programmers, but you can
   excise the general CS stuff if you don't need it.


-- 
    Tad McClellan                          SGML Consulting
    [email protected]                     Perl programming
    Fort Worth, Texas
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