Thanks. Looks like I'll give it a try. I came across an excellent tutorial:
http://www.extropia.com/tutorials/perl5/oop.html I recomend this as a place to start for any beginner. I have the Cookbook, and although it is excellent in most parts, its treatement of oop is confusing, unless you are already grounded in oop. I understand what you mean when you say that you have to have some theory before tackling object oriented programming. The web page I looked at, however, went on and on without ever trying to ground the theory in practice. I think the book will be better. Paul On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:58:50AM +0000, Jonathan E. Paton wrote: > Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:58:50 +0000 (GMT) > From: "Jonathan E. Paton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: looking for book on object oriented perl > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > (1) Could someone tell me if this in fact > > > is from the same book? > > > > > > From what I read on this site, I was not > > > too impressed with the book at all. It > > > seemed to go on forever explaining theory > > > without giving any concrete examples with > > > perl code. > > "This is a series of extracts from Object > Orientated Perl", and it looks familar > enough but isn't any one chapter - it's a > preview as it were. > > > In my opinion, the balanace between theory > > and technique in the book is good, you really > > can't expect a book about object oriented to > > be without any theory at all right? > > There is a lot of theory, explaining the > various approaches then following with an > implementation of what was dicussed. > > In OO there is NO ONE WAY to implement a > system, you need to know what the different > techniques are and when to apply them - > this book will teach you that. > > > > (2) Does this book get better in > > > chapters 2 and 3? Do people on this > > > mailing list recomend it? > > Yes, they do - as I bought it on other > people's recommends and didn't regret > doing so :) > > > > Keep in mind that I am a beginner > > > with no previous experience in any > > > object oriented langauge. > > > > I was very fresh on OO perl when I first > > read the book and I did found a lot of > > good tips and advice from it. If you are > > too fresh to OO perl, I would say this is > > a good place to start. > > OO is difficult at first, but makes larger > problems easier. However, before you can > do anything complex you need to learn a > lot of things first. > > However, you should remember the Cookbook > and the Camel both have chapters on OO that > you may want to start with - although they > are geared towards those with some prior > experience. > > Jonathan Paton > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* ************************ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
