Re: Recommendations for a self-taught Perl programmer

[perrin]

in reply to Recommendations for a self-taught Perl programmer

I suggest two books. First, "Mastering Algorithms with Perl", and second, the first edition of "Advanced Perl Programming" by Sriram Srinivasan (not the second edition, which is a completely different book).

I also recommend that you learn Java. One reason is that many of the interesting books and articles about programming these days use Java for examples. Another is that Java has a lot of interesting OO design in it's core libraries, which will give you ideas you can use in perl.

[j3]

{snip} and second, the first edition of "Advanced Perl Programming" by Sriram Srinivasan (not the second edition, which is a completely different book).

What are the diffs between the 1st and 2nd editions? Why choose the 1st edition over the 2nd?

[perrin]

The first edition is the book I read. It introduces generally interesting concepts like database mapping, code generation, the flywieght object pattern, etc. all in code examples. The second edition is a completely different book, which I haven't read.

[GrandFather]

Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd edition may help - all the answers are in Super Search :-D.

[j3]

Whoops. Thanks perrin and GF. Should've searched first.