I'm trying very hard to get a good grasp on OOP, references, complex data structures etc.
I just ordered Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules from amazon.ca, and have been tredging through the perldoc documentation.
After getting into a few of the pages, it appears as though I get a certain way through the manual page, and all of a sudden, it drops right off and I get lost, as it feels as though you need prior knowledge at that point.
In particular, perldsc was very good, well laid out, but again, I got to a point where it was like whoah, way over my head.
Is there anyone here who can recommend a logical reading order of some of these docs, so they tend to lean from one, into the next and so on?
TIA for any advice on the precedence order.
Steve
You might be best off waiting for the book. Having said that, did you go through the tutorials or just the reference docs? The difference here is that the book is specifically geared towards learning/teaching, where some of the docs are reference material, they are intended to explain most or all the possiblities in a tight format. The tutorials are better because they too are geared more towards teaching, but I don't think they are as solid as the LPORM book.
Check, perldoc perl
You might want to go with the order listed in there. I would suggest starting with perlreftut and perlboot, but when I read the docs I already had a foundation from the Advanced Perl Prog from ORA and OO Perl by Damian Conway.
Good luck,
http://danconia.org
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