There are at least three books out on Catalyst. I have not found any of them to be adequate as beginning books. I think that the authors were aware of the good tutorial material on cpan and did not want to duplicate it. I hope to find the books useful as reference and review material in the future. For now, I depend on cpan and irc.
Mark On Oct 24, 2010, at 8:23 PM, "John Karr" <[email protected]> wrote: > It came out just as I was trying to learn catalyst. From a beginner > perspective it wasn’t of any value -- thankfully Kennedy Clark has been doing > an excellent job with the Tutorial on CPAN, because that’s how I figured most > things out. I was severely disappointed with the book, and not the least > concerned with LOLCats and Kitty Pidgin. The people who wrote the book are a > very knowledgeable group and sometimes their book works as a reference, but > overall doesn’t seem add a lot to what’s already in the documentation, while > being of no value to beginners whatsoever. > > > > It would be nice to have a good beginner book and a more advanced book. If > any of the more advanced programmers on this list would like someone to help > with writing the beginner book, don’t hesitate to get in touch! > > > > > > From: Philip Medes [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 5:33 PM > To: The elegant MVC web framework > Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Has anyone read the book "Catalyst 5.8 : The Perl MVC > Framework" yet? > > > > I actually read the first 2 chapters and tried the examples. I haven't had > time to finish the book. > I haven't read any other books on Catalyst, but I do like the Sitepoint books > better ("Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Web Applications"). > > From: Kiffin Gish <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 3:15:47 PM > Subject: [Catalyst] Has anyone read the book "Catalyst 5.8 : The Perl MVC > Framework" yet? > > I recently received a copy of the book "Catalyst 5.8 : The Perl MVC > Framework" for review, have read it and tried out the examples. > > Before I make my judgments public, I'd first be curious to hear from > others in the Catalyst Community about what their views are on the > book. > > Those that have "actually read" the book, that is. I've already seen a > couple blog entries and they tend to be fairly negative (we sure prefer > to rant). > > -- > Kiffin Gish <[email protected]> > Gouda, The Netherlands > > > > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
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