[perl5.git] / pod / perlbook.pod

=head1 NAME

perlbook - Books about and related to Perl

=head1 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
L<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
( L<http://safaribooksonline.com/> ).

=head2 The most popular books

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

=over 4

=item I<Programming Perl> (the "Camel Book"):

 by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall with Jon Orwant
 ISBN 978-0-596-00492-7 [4th edition February 2012]
 ISBN 978-1-4493-9890-3 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927

=back

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

=over 4

=item I<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]
 ISBN 978-0-596-15888-0 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/

=back

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:

=over 4

=item I<Learning Perl>  (the "Llama Book")

 by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
 ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011]
 ISBN 978-1-4493-0458-4 [ebook]
 http://www.learning-perl.com/

=back

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

=over 4

=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")

 by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
         foreword by Damian Conway
 ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012]
 ISBN 978-1-4493-0459-1 [ebook]
 http://www.intermediateperl.com/

=back

=head2 References

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

=over 4

=item I<Perl 5 Pocket Reference>

 by Johan Vromans
 ISBN 978-1-4493-0370-9 [5th edition July 2011]
 ISBN 978-1-4493-0813-1 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018476/

=item I<Perl Debugger Pocket Reference>

 by Richard Foley
 ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004]
 ISBN 978-0-596-55625-9 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/

=item I<Regular Expression Pocket Reference>

 by Tony Stubblebine
 ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [2nd edition July 2007]
 ISBN 978-0-596-55782-9 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/

=back

=head2 Tutorials

=over 4

=item I<Beginning Perl>

(There are 2 books with this title)

 by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe
 ISBN 978-1-118-01384-7
 http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-1118013840.html

 by James Lee
 ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010 & ebook]
 http://www.apress.com/9781430227939

=item I<Learning Perl> (the "Llama Book")

 by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
 ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011]
 ISBN 978-1-4493-0458-4 [ebook]
 http://www.learning-perl.com/

=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")

 by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
         foreword by Damian Conway
 ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012]
 ISBN 978-1-4493-0459-1 [ebook]
 http://www.intermediateperl.com/

=item I<Mastering Perl>

    by brian d foy
 ISBN 9978-1-4493-9311-3 [2st edition January 2014]
 ISBN 978-1-4493-6487-8 [ebook]
 http://www.masteringperl.org/

=item I<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/

=back

=head2 Task-Oriented

=over 4

=item I<Writing Perl Modules for CPAN>

 by Sam Tregar
 ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002 & ebook]
 http://www.apress.com/9781590590188

=item I<The Perl Cookbook>

 by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
     with Foreword by Larry Wall
 ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003]
 ISBN 978-0-596-15888-0 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/

=item I<Automating System Administration with Perl>

 by David N. Blank-Edelman
 ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009]
 ISBN 978-0-596-80251-6 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396

=item I<Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl>

 by Linchi Shea
 ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003 & ebook]
 http://www.apress.com/9781590590973

=back

=head2 Special Topics

=over 4

=item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook>

 by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
 ISBN 978-1-4493-1943-4 [2nd edition August 2012]
 ISBN 978-1-4493-2747-7 [ebook]
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023630.do

=item I<Programming the Perl DBI>

 by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
 ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
 ISBN 978-1-4493-8670-2 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998

=item I<Perl Best Practices>

 by Damian Conway
 ISBN 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
 ISBN 978-0-596-15900-9 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735

=item I<Higher-Order Perl>

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

=item I<Mastering Regular Expressions>

 by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
 ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006]
 ISBN 978-0-596-55899-4 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126

=item I<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

=item I<Perl Template Toolkit>

 by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley
 ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003]
 ISBN 978-1-4493-8647-4 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767

=item I<Object Oriented Perl>

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

=item I<Data Munging with Perl>

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

=item I<Mastering Perl/Tk>

 by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
 ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002]
 ISBN 978-0-596-10344-6 [ebook]
 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162

=item I<Extending and Embedding Perl>

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

=item I<Pro Perl Debugging>

 by Richard Foley with Andy Lester
 ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005 & ebook]
 http://www.apress.com/9781590594544

=back

=head2 Free (as in beer) books

Some of these books are available as free downloads.

I<Higher-Order Perl>: L<http://hop.perl.plover.com/>

I<Modern Perl>: L<http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/>

=head2 Other interesting, non-Perl books

You might notice several familiar Perl concepts in this collection of
ACM columns from Jon Bentley. The similarity to the title of the major
Perl book (which came later) is not completely accidental:

=over 4

=item I<Programming Pearls>

 by Jon Bentley
 ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999]

=item I<More Programming Pearls>

 by Jon Bentley
 ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988]

=back

=head2 A note on freshness

Each version of Perl comes with the documentation that was current at
the time of release. This poses a problem for content such as book
lists. There are probably very nice books published after this list
was included in your Perl release, and you can check the latest
released version at L<http://perldoc.perl.org/perlbook.html> .

Some of the books we've listed appear almost ancient in internet
scale, but we've included those books because they still describe the
current way of doing things. Not everything in Perl changes every day.
Many of the beginner-level books, too, go over basic features and
techniques that are still valid today. In general though, we try to
limit this list to books published in the past five years.

=head2 Get your book listed

If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know.
L<mailto:perl5-porters@perl.org>

=cut
Commit	Line	Data
a0d0e21e LW	1	=head1 NAME
a0d0e21e LW	2
ab098d01	3	perlbook - Books about and related to Perl
a0d0e21e LW	4
	5	=head1 DESCRIPTION
	6
ab098d01	7	There are many books on Perl and Perl-related. A few of these are
ab098d01	8	good, some are OK, but many aren't worth your money. There is a list
cd783063 KW	9	of these books, some with extensive reviews, at
	10	L<http://books.perl.org/> . We list some of the books here, and while
	11	listing a book implies our
ab098d01	12	endorsement, don't think that not including a book means anything.
	13
	14	Most of these books are available online through Safari Books Online
cd783063	15	( L<http://safaribooksonline.com/> ).
ab098d01	16
	17	=head2 The most popular books
	18
	19	The major reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is
	20	I<Programming Perl>:
	21
	22	=over 4
	23
	24	=item I<Programming Perl> (the "Camel Book"):
	25
f5430c7b KW	26	by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall with Jon Orwant
	27	ISBN 978-0-596-00492-7 [4th edition February 2012]
	28	ISBN 978-1-4493-9890-3 [ebook]
	29	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927
ab098d01	30
	31	=back
	32
	33	The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to
	34	accomplish specific tasks:
	35
	36	=over 4
	37
	38	=item I<The Perl Cookbook> (the "Ram Book"):
	39
f5430c7b KW	40	by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
	41	with Foreword by Larry Wall
	42	ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003]
	43	ISBN 978-0-596-15888-0 [ebook]
	44	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/
ab098d01	45
	46	=back
	47
	48	If you want to learn the basics of Perl, you might start with the
	49	Llama book, which assumes that you already know a little about
	50	programming:
	51
	52	=over 4
	53
	54	=item I<Learning Perl> (the "Llama Book")
	55
f5430c7b KW	56	by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
	57	ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011]
	58	ISBN 978-1-4493-0458-4 [ebook]
	59	http://www.learning-perl.com/
ab098d01	60
	61	=back
	62
	63	The tutorial started in the Llama continues in the Alpaca, which
	64	introduces the intermediate features of references, data structures,
	65	object-oriented programming, and modules:
	66
	67	=over 4
	68
	69	=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")
	70
f5430c7b KW	71	by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
	72	foreword by Damian Conway
	73	ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012]
	74	ISBN 978-1-4493-0459-1 [ebook]
	75	http://www.intermediateperl.com/
ab098d01	76
	77	=back
	78
	79	=head2 References
	80
	81	You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard:
	82
	83	=over 4
	84
	85	=item I<Perl 5 Pocket Reference>
	86
f5430c7b KW	87	by Johan Vromans
	88	ISBN 978-1-4493-0370-9 [5th edition July 2011]
	89	ISBN 978-1-4493-0813-1 [ebook]
	90	http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018476/
ab098d01	91
	92	=item I<Perl Debugger Pocket Reference>
	93
f5430c7b KW	94	by Richard Foley
	95	ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004]
	96	ISBN 978-0-596-55625-9 [ebook]
	97	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/
ab098d01	98
	99	=item I<Regular Expression Pocket Reference>
	100
f5430c7b KW	101	by Tony Stubblebine
	102	ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [2nd edition July 2007]
	103	ISBN 978-0-596-55782-9 [ebook]
	104	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/
ab098d01	105
	106	=back
	107
	108	=head2 Tutorials
	109
	110	=over 4
	111
	112	=item I<Beginning Perl>
	113
bf155cfc ZS	114	(There are 2 books with this title)
	115
	116	by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe
	117	ISBN 978-1-118-01384-7
	118	http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-1118013840.html
	119
f5430c7b KW	120	by James Lee
	121	ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010 & ebook]
	122	http://www.apress.com/9781430227939
ab098d01	123
1031545c	124	=item I<Learning Perl> (the "Llama Book")
ab098d01	125
f5430c7b KW	126	by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
	127	ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011]
	128	ISBN 978-1-4493-0458-4 [ebook]
	129	http://www.learning-perl.com/
ab098d01	130
	131	=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")
	132
f5430c7b KW	133	by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
	134	foreword by Damian Conway
	135	ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012]
	136	ISBN 978-1-4493-0459-1 [ebook]
	137	http://www.intermediateperl.com/
ab098d01	138
	139	=item I<Mastering Perl>
	140
1031545c	141	by brian d foy
f5430c7b KW	142	ISBN 9978-1-4493-9311-3 [2st edition January 2014]
	143	ISBN 978-1-4493-6487-8 [ebook]
	144	http://www.masteringperl.org/
ab098d01	145
	146	=item I<Effective Perl Programming>
	147
f5430c7b KW	148	by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy
	149	ISBN 0-321-49694-9 [2nd edition 2010]
	150	http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/
ab098d01	151
	152	=back
	153
	154	=head2 Task-Oriented
	155
	156	=over 4
	157
	158	=item I<Writing Perl Modules for CPAN>
	159
f5430c7b KW	160	by Sam Tregar
	161	ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002 & ebook]
	162	http://www.apress.com/9781590590188
ab098d01	163
	164	=item I<The Perl Cookbook>
	165
f5430c7b KW	166	by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
	167	with Foreword by Larry Wall
	168	ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003]
	169	ISBN 978-0-596-15888-0 [ebook]
	170	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/
ab098d01	171
ab098d01	172	=item I<Automating System Administration with Perl>
ab098d01	173
f5430c7b KW	174	by David N. Blank-Edelman
	175	ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009]
	176	ISBN 978-0-596-80251-6 [ebook]
	177	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396
ab098d01	178
	179	=item I<Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl>
	180
f5430c7b KW	181	by Linchi Shea
	182	ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003 & ebook]
	183	http://www.apress.com/9781590590973
ab098d01	184
	185	=back
	186
	187	=head2 Special Topics
	188
	189	=over 4
	190
	191	=item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook>
	192
f5430c7b KW	193	by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
	194	ISBN 978-1-4493-1943-4 [2nd edition August 2012]
	195	ISBN 978-1-4493-2747-7 [ebook]
	196	http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023630.do
ab098d01	197
	198	=item I<Programming the Perl DBI>
	199
f5430c7b KW	200	by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
	201	ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
	202	ISBN 978-1-4493-8670-2 [ebook]
	203	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998
ab098d01	204
	205	=item I<Perl Best Practices>
	206
f5430c7b KW	207	by Damian Conway
	208	ISBN 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
	209	ISBN 978-0-596-15900-9 [ebook]
	210	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735
ab098d01	211
	212	=item I<Higher-Order Perl>
	213
f5430c7b KW	214	by Mark-Jason Dominus
	215	ISBN 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005]
	216	free ebook http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/
	217	http://hop.perl.plover.com/
ab098d01	218
	219	=item I<Mastering Regular Expressions>
	220
f5430c7b KW	221	by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
	222	ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006]
	223	ISBN 978-0-596-55899-4 [ebook]
	224	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126
ab098d01	225
	226	=item I<Network Programming with Perl>
	227
f5430c7b KW	228	by Lincoln Stein
	229	ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001]
	230	http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page
ab098d01	231
	232	=item I<Perl Template Toolkit>
	233
f5430c7b KW	234	by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley
	235	ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003]
	236	ISBN 978-1-4493-8647-4 [ebook]
	237	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767
ab098d01	238
	239	=item I<Object Oriented Perl>
	240
f5430c7b KW	241	by Damian Conway
	242	with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
	243	ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999 & ebook]
	244	http://www.manning.com/conway/
ab098d01	245
	246	=item I<Data Munging with Perl>
	247
f5430c7b KW	248	by Dave Cross
	249	ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001 & ebook]
	250	http://www.manning.com/cross
ab098d01	251
	252	=item I<Mastering Perl/Tk>
	253
f5430c7b KW	254	by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
	255	ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002]
	256	ISBN 978-0-596-10344-6 [ebook]
	257	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162
ab098d01	258
	259	=item I<Extending and Embedding Perl>
	260
f5430c7b KW	261	by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
	262	ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002 & ebook]
	263	http://www.manning.com/jenness
ab098d01	264
	265	=item I<Pro Perl Debugging>
	266
f5430c7b KW	267	by Richard Foley with Andy Lester
	268	ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005 & ebook]
	269	http://www.apress.com/9781590594544
ab098d01	270
	271	=back
	272
	273	=head2 Free (as in beer) books
	274
	275	Some of these books are available as free downloads.
	276
cd783063	277	I<Higher-Order Perl>: L<http://hop.perl.plover.com/>
ab098d01	278
bf155cfc ZS	279	I<Modern Perl>: L<http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/>
bf155cfc ZS	280
ab098d01	281	=head2 Other interesting, non-Perl books
	282
	283	You might notice several familiar Perl concepts in this collection of
	284	ACM columns from Jon Bentley. The similarity to the title of the major
	285	Perl book (which came later) is not completely accidental:
	286
	287	=over 4
	288
	289	=item I<Programming Pearls>
	290
f5430c7b KW	291	by Jon Bentley
f5430c7b KW	292	ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999]
ab098d01	293
	294	=item I<More Programming Pearls>
	295
f5430c7b KW	296	by Jon Bentley
f5430c7b KW	297	ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988]
ab098d01	298
	299	=back
	300
	301	=head2 A note on freshness
	302
	303	Each version of Perl comes with the documentation that was current at
	304	the time of release. This poses a problem for content such as book
	305	lists. There are probably very nice books published after this list
	306	was included in your Perl release, and you can check the latest
cd783063	307	released version at L<http://perldoc.perl.org/perlbook.html> .
ab098d01	308
	309	Some of the books we've listed appear almost ancient in internet
	310	scale, but we've included those books because they still describe the
	311	current way of doing things. Not everything in Perl changes every day.
	312	Many of the beginner-level books, too, go over basic features and
	313	techniques that are still valid today. In general though, we try to
	314	limit this list to books published in the past five years.
	315
	316	=head2 Get your book listed
	317
fa3a75c5	318	If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know.
cd783063	319	L<mailto:perl5-porters@perl.org>
ab098d01	320
ab098d01	321	=cut