Re: Basic Guide to Scripting Terms?
Re: Basic Guide to Scripting Terms?
- Subject: Re: Basic Guide to Scripting Terms?
- From: Phil Dobbin <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:50:53 +0100
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 07:07:48 -0700 (PDT), James Worster <email@hidden> wrote:
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I would also like to know about any general
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programming books, especially about OO concepts.
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I'm largely self taught and I suspect there are
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some gaping holes in my scripting knowledge. Any
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recommendations about good books on programming
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and OO concepts would be greatly appreciated.
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How about good books on Pearl and/or Javascript
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as we go into OSX.? Any good Unix programming
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books to recommend?
As for Pe(a)rl, the two essentials are "Programming Perl" by Larry Wall, Tom
Christiansen and Jon Orwant and "Learning Perl" by Randal L. Scwartz and Tom
Phoenix, both now in their third incarnations. Another book I've found invaluable
in coming to grips with Perl is "Mastering Regular Expresions" by Jeffrey E. F.
Friedl. It is also one of my favourite books on any thing computer based or
anything that is text slanted (it is really good reading and shows how powerful
regex is, covering several sides to them). All three published by O'Reilly
(oreilly.com).
Being a JavaScript novice I use VQS's "JS for the WWW" by Tom Negrino and Dori
Smith. I found it a good place to start for using it in web pages but the
definitive guide is supposed to be the O'Reilly book by David Flanagan (it's a bit
out of date, 1998).
BTW, no. I'm not employed by O'Reillys'!
As for a general book on OOP, as has been said before, if you find one, let me
know...
Regards,
Phil.