Re: Perl texts for college class?

>>>>> "WRW" == William R Ward <[email protected]> writes:

  WRW> The "llama" book (_Learning Perl_) is just not good enough - after
  WRW> about halfway through the quarter we run out of topics in it, and it
  WRW> doesn't address key Perl concepts like references, modules, and object
  WRW> oriented programming in Perl.  In my opinion, when they made the 2nd
  WRW> Edition for Perl 5, they didn't rewrite it deeply enough.  I suspect
  WRW> that it is well suited for a corporate training class, which is after
  WRW> all what Randal does, where you are there 8 hours a day for 5 days.
  WRW> But for a college class with homework and exams that meets two or
  WRW> three nights a week for a couple of months, it just isn't suitable.

  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.

uri

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