[Courses] Re: [prog] Perl course

[Alice Wood]

On Sunday 23 February 2003 04:54, Sue Stones wrote:
> How much difference is there between the 2nd and 3rd editions?
>
> sue

Hi,

Sorry it has taken so long to reply to you, I got too involved in my 
decorating.

The answer to the above question seems to be quite a lot. I have an electronic 
version of 2 and a paper version of 3. Below is a summary of the differences 
as noted in the preface to 3.

Completely new text, taken from teaching the Perl course (it has to be said 
that the text does occasionally suffer from a lack of clear explanation, 2 
may help with this, along with LinuxChix)

The regular expressions section has been split into three parts to make it 
more managable.

The artificial control structures chapter has gone and parts have been 
incorporated into other chapters.

Subroutines are brought in earlier.

Element syntax is before aggregate syntax for both arrays and hashes.

The exercises are different, although not for the first couple of chapters.

Information is included on use strict, warnings and modules.

Book 3 is also address more to general programmers which tends to make it more 
friendly.

Hope this helps.

I will be basing the course on book 3 obviously, but as I have access to a 
book 2 I will try to flag up different pages if I can.

See you Saturday,

Alice

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