This books tend to teach programming (the syntax of a programm language), not software development. Thats a big issue in the whole it-world. Everybody who can read a shell-skript and work with an text-editor calls himself a software developer.
A software developer has to know much more then a hobby coder. -> standardisations -> design/documentation process -> revision control -> code complexity controll -> best practise implementation standards -> error handling -> deep understanding of the underling layers (computer, netwrok, database... what ever) etc. Most code I see nowadays done by many of my so called "software developer" colleagues lacks of all those techniques. If you want to do here a favour, hand here a book about software development. If she needs perl for her business, she has to learn this anyway. Some people by the hardway (reimplementing a pile of 500 000 undocumentet logical completly wierd lines of self-made horror), some people the softway (getting it taugh by a wise man). bye, b. >Raymond Wan <r...@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp> hat am 13. März 2009 um 04:24 >geschrieben: > > Hi Shlomi, > > > Shlomi Fish wrote: >> > Hi all! >> > >> > I've been tutoring someone in Perl 5, and as she wants to learn Perl from >> > a >> > paperware book, she borrowed the book "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 >> > Days" >> > from her workplace's library, and started reading it. Now, all those "in >> > 21 >> > Days"/"in 24 hours"/"unleashed"/"for Dummies"/etc. books tend to have a >> > bad >> > reputation among knowledgeable people, so I'd like to know how good this >> > particular book is, so I won't have to undo the damage if it's bad. >> >> >> I can't comment on this book in particular, but I did go through "Sams Teach >> Yourself >C++ in 21 Days". I went through the book a long, long time ago >> and I thought this series >was gone...surprised to just look on Amazon and >> see that it's up to a 5th edition. <*yikes* <> >> The book isn't bad and books like these or the "Dummies" series don't >> deserve the >negative comments. They aren't great, but they obviously sell >> and they sell because they >satisfy a niche. It's for the busy people or >> the ones who just want to have their hand >held at first. That niche would >> perhaps be not the people on this list who have chosen to >use O'Reilly >> books, etc. (Learning Perl, etc.). So, I doubt you're going to get any >> >positive comments. > > I think if the person you are tutoring has a computer science background > (i.e., used >other languages before), then she might find this book and this > series a bit boring. But >otherwise, it's a good warm-up and if she finds > she has a thirst for more Perl >afterwards, >then she might want to try > another one like Learning Perl. >> >> Ray >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org >> http://learn.perl.org/ >> >>
