The best Perl book I ever read -- and one of the best general programming
technique books -- was Higher Order Perl. It's available as a free ebook now,
but still in print if you want a hard copy.
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On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 10:37 AM, B. Estrade via Houston
<[email protected]> wrote:
My top recommendations, other than bdf's Mastering Perl (exceptional):
- Effective Perl Programming (Schwartz, bdf)
- Object Oriented Perl (Conway) - really a fundamental read
- Perl Best Practices (Conway)
The above books have in common that they don't read like books, but rather you
may pick and choose as your need/mood suites you.
In the same vein, the Perl Advent Calendar series on the web is also really
good to read.
Knuth's volume of books give you massive nerd cred, and in fact I own the set.
One day I will go through it all. One day. ;)
My #1 recommendation for a mind blowing, non-Perl book is Wolfram's A New Kind
of Science. I read it cover to cover when it came out in the early 2000s. I
never bought into the Wolfram-hate on such places as /., and I recommend you do
not either if you choose it as a read. Taken for what it is, it has the
potential to change your perspective on computing on its heads.
Other books I can recommend without hesitation:
- Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (Gray)
- An Introduction to Database Systems (Date)
- A Quarter Century of UNIX (Salus)
- FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials, FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS (both by Lucas)
- High Performance MySQL (Brian Schwartz, et. al)
- Unix Power Tools, Third Edition (Powers, et. al)
I have more, but this rounds out the list of must haves for me.
Brett
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Robert Stone via Houston <[email protected]>
wrote:
Greetings,
I'm almost certain the book about refactoring code you are referring to is
"Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" by Fowler, Beck and the
rest of the brain trust.
http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/0201485672
Great book, highly recommended. I read about the first half of it chapter by
chapter and the rest of it is more reference for types of refactoring that you
dive into when you need them ( Move Method, Replace Conditional with
Polymorphism, etc). I recommend the actual book rather than the kindle/ebook
as the code sample are formatted rather poorly in the digital version.
Though quite pricey, at our Tips and Tricks meeting Julian mentioned the four
book series "The Art of Computer Programming" by Knuth.
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxed/dp/0321751043
This is an epic series, very math heavy and very deep and I've been really
digging it.
In addition to these, I've been re-reading the perl classics and it's amazing
how each time I do so I understand more and more and find myself saying "I
didn't know you could do that!"
Learning Perl - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449303587Intermediate Perl -
http://www.amazon.com/Intermediate-Perl-Randal-L-Schwartz/dp/1449393098Mastering
Perl - http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Perl-brian-d-foy/dp/144939311X
Best Regards,Robert Stone
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Trac Taylor via Houston <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey everyone
I getting some funds from work for new books. I know in some of the past
meetings, we have discussed some books to read. These don't have to be Perl
books. The books do need to be about programming or somewhere along those
lines.
Wade, I remember you telling me a book about refactoring code, which sounded
interesting but I dont remember the title/author. And Julian talked about the
algorithms book 2 months ago.
ThanksTrac Taylor
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