Re: Perl texts for college class?

William R Ward wrote:
> 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.  In my opinion, when they made the 2nd
> Edition for Perl 5, they didn't rewrite it deeply enough.  I suspect
> that it is well suited for a corporate training class, which is after
> all what Randal does, where you are there 8 hours a day for 5 days.
> But for a college class with homework and exams that meets two or
> three nights a week for a couple of months, it just isn't suitable.
> 
> So if anyone out there knows of a better textbook I'd really like to
> hear about it...

i teach a semester-long Perl class at East Tennessee State
University and use Jon Orwant's "Perl 5 Interactive" (published
by Waite/MCP) text.  to be honest, the actual class notes
& material is pretty much all rewritten by me, plus the
online docs.  i do highly recommend this text for a
college class -- it not only covers more material than
the Llama, it also has more (and in my opinion, better)
examples and exercises.
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Steve Lane <[email protected]>