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We list some of the books here, and while listing a book implies our -endorsement, don't think that not including a book means anything. - -Most of these books are available online through Safari Books Online -( http://safaribooksonline.com/ ). - -=head2 The most popular books - -The major reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is -I<Programming Perl>: - -=over 4 - -=item I<Programming Perl> (the "Camel Book"): - - by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant - ISBN 978-0-596-00027-1 [3rd edition July 2000] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271/ - -=back - -The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to -accomplish specific tasks: - -=over 4 - -=item I<The Perl Cookbook> (the "Ram Book"): - - by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, - with Foreword by Larry Wall - ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/ - -=back - -If you want to learn the basics of Perl, you might start with the -Llama book, which assumes that you already know a little about -programming: - -=over 4 - -=item I<Learning Perl> (the "Llama Book") - - by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy - ISBN 978-0-596-52011-3 [5th edition June 2008] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520113 - -=back - -The tutorial started in the Llama continues in the Alpaca, which -introduces the intermediate features of references, data structures, -object-oriented programming, and modules: - -=over 4 - -=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book") - - by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix - foreword by Damian Conway - ISBN 978-0-596-00478-1 [1st edition March 2006] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004781/ - -=back - -=head2 References - -You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard: - -=over 4 - -=item I<Perl 5 Pocket Reference> - - by Johan Vromans - ISBN 978-0-596-00374-6 [4th edition July 2002] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003746/ - -=item I<Perl Debugger Pocket Reference> - - by Richard Foley - ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/ - -=item I<Regular Expression Pocket Reference> - - by Tony Stubblebine - ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [July 2007] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/ - -=back - -=head2 Tutorials - -=over 4 - -=item I<Beginning Perl> - - by James Lee - ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010] - http://www.apress.com/9781430227939 - -=item I<Learning Perl> - - by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy - ISBN 978-0-596-52010-6 [5th edition June 2008] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106 - -=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book") - - by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix - foreword by Damian Conway - ISBN 0-596-10206-2 [1st edition March 2006] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102067 - -=item I<Mastering Perl> - - by brian d foy - ISBN 978-0-596-10206-7 [1st edition July 2007] - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242 - -=item I<Effective Perl Programming> - - by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy - ISBN 0-321-49694-9 [2nd edition 2010] - http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/ - -=back - -=head2 Task-Oriented - -=over 4 - -=item I<Writing Perl Modules for CPAN> - - by Sam Tregar - ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002] - http://www.apress.com/9781590590188 - -=item I<The Perl Cookbook> - - by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington - with foreword by Larry Wall - ISBN 1-56592-243-3 [2nd edition August 2003] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135 - -=item I<Automating System Administration with Perl> - - by David N. Blank-Edelman - ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396 - -=item I<Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl> - - by Linchi Shea - ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003] - http://www.apress.com/9781590590973 - -=back - -=head2 Special Topics - -=over 4 - -=item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook> - - by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan - ISBN 978-0-596-52069-4 [May 2009] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520694 - -=item I<Programming the Perl DBI> - - by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes - ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998 - -=item I<Perl Best Practices> - - by Damian Conway - ISBN: 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735 - -=item I<Higher-Order Perl> - - by Mark-Jason Dominus - ISBN: 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005] - http://hop.perl.plover.com/ - -=item I<Mastering Regular Expressions> - - by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl - ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126 - -=item I<Network Programming with Perl> - - by Lincoln Stein - ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001] - http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page - -=item I<Perl Template Toolkit> - - by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley - ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767 - -=item I<Object Oriented Perl> - - by Damian Conway - with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz - ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999] - http://www.manning.com/conway/ - -=item I<Data Munging with Perl> - - by Dave Cross - ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001] - http://www.manning.com/cross - -=item I<Mastering Perl/Tk> - - by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh - ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002] - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162 - -=item I<Extending and Embedding Perl> - - by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens - ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002] - http://www.manning.com/jenness - -=item I<Pro Perl Debugging> - - by Richard Foley with Andy Lester - ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005] - http://www.apress.com/9781590594544 - -=back - -=head2 Free (as in beer) books - -Some of these books are available as free downloads. - -I<Higher-Order Perl>: http://hop.perl.plover.com/ - -=head2 Other interesting, non-Perl books - -You might notice several familiar Perl concepts in this collection of -ACM columns from Jon Bentley. The similarity to the title of the major -Perl book (which came later) is not completely accidental: - -=over 4 - -=item I<Programming Pearls> - - by Jon Bentley - ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999] - -=item I<More Programming Pearls> - - by Jon Bentley - ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988] - -=back - -=head2 A note on freshness - -Each version of Perl comes with the documentation that was current at -the time of release. This poses a problem for content such as book -lists. There are probably very nice books published after this list -was included in your Perl release, and you can check the latest -released version at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlbook.html . - -Some of the books we've listed appear almost ancient in internet -scale, but we've included those books because they still describe the -current way of doing things. Not everything in Perl changes every day. -Many of the beginner-level books, too, go over basic features and -techniques that are still valid today. In general though, we try to -limit this list to books published in the past five years. - -=head2 Get your book listed - -If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know. - -=cut |