CONTENTS

• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
  • The most popular books
  • References
  • Tutorials
  • Task-Oriented
  • Special Topics
  • Free (as in beer) books
  • Other interesting, non-Perl books
  • A note on freshness
  • Get your book listed

#NAME

perlbook - Books about and related to Perl

#DESCRIPTION

There are many books on Perl and Perl-related. A few of these are good, some are OK, but many aren't worth your money. There is a list of these books, some with extensive reviews, at http://books.perl.org/ . We list some of the books here, and while listing a book implies our endorsement, don't think that not including a book means anything.

Most of these books are available online through Safari Books Online ( http://safaribooksonline.com/ ).

#The most popular books

The major reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is Programming Perl:

#Programming Perl (the "Camel Book"):

by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant
ISBN 978-0-596-00027-1  [3rd edition July 2000]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271/

The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to accomplish specific tasks:

#The Perl Cookbook (the "Ram Book"):

by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
    with Foreword by Larry Wall
ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/

If you want to learn the basics of Perl, you might start with the Llama book, which assumes that you already know a little about programming:

#Learning Perl (the "Llama Book")

by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
ISBN 978-0-596-52011-3 [5th edition June 2008]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520113

The tutorial started in the Llama continues in the Alpaca, which introduces the intermediate features of references, data structures, object-oriented programming, and modules:

#Intermediate Perl (the "Alpaca Book")

by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
	foreword by Damian Conway
ISBN 978-0-596-00478-1 [1st edition March 2006]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004781/

#References

You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard:

#Perl 5 Pocket Reference

by Johan Vromans
ISBN 978-0-596-00374-6 [4th edition July 2002]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003746/

#Perl Debugger Pocket Reference

by Richard Foley
ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/

#Regular Expression Pocket Reference

by Tony Stubblebine
ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [July 2007]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/

#Tutorials

#Beginning Perl

by James Lee
ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010]
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430227931

#Learning Perl

by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
ISBN 978-0-596-52010-6 [5th edition June 2008]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106

#Intermediate Perl (the "Alpaca Book")

by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
	foreword by Damian Conway
ISBN 0-596-10206-2 [1st edition March 2006]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102067

#Mastering Perl

by brian d foy
ISBN 978-0-596-10206-7 [1st edition July 2007]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242

#Effective Perl Programming

by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy
ISBN 0-321-49694-9 [2nd edition 2010]
http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/

#Task-Oriented

#Writing Perl Modules for CPAN

by Sam Tregar
ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002]
http://www.apress.com/book/view/159059018X

#The Perl Cookbook

by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington
    with foreword by Larry Wall
ISBN 1-56592-243-3 [2nd edition August 2003]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135

#Automating System Administration with Perl

by David N. Blank-Edelman
ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396

#Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl

by Linchi Shea
ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003]
http://www.apress.com/book/view/159059097X

#Special Topics

#Regular Expressions Cookbook

by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
ISBN 978-0-596-52069-4 [May 2009]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520694

#Programming the Perl DBI

by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998

#Perl Best Practices

by Damian Conway
ISBN: 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735

#Higher-Order Perl

by Mark-Jason Dominus
ISBN: 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005]
http://hop.perl.plover.com/

#Mastering Regular Expressions

by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126

#Network Programming with Perl

by Lincoln Stein
ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001]
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page

#Perl Template Toolkit

by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley
ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767

#Object Oriented Perl

by Damian Conway
    with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999]
http://www.manning.com/conway/

#Data Munging with Perl

by Dave Cross
ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001]
http://www.manning.com/cross

#Mastering Perl/Tk

by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162

#Extending and Embedding Perl

by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002]
http://www.manning.com/jenness

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