Learn Open Source Programming
While the title of Dana Blankenhorn’s post is misleading (The fastest way to learn open source) it’s still a handy post. Dana makes you think that you’re going to learn about open source, when in reality you’re going to learn open source programming.
O’Reilly’s Head First series, and it makes the Dummies series read like they were written for Einstein.
Tim O’Reilly has taken everything he and his company have learned training people in programming for two decades and condensed it into the format of this series. Even I can learn with it.
I love the O’Reilly books, but I don’t have any of the Head First books - maybe I should pick a few up to learn Perl … since Koha is in Perl and I’m a PHP girl.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
One of the Koha programmers recommended “Perl by Example” by Ellie Quigley, and that is indeed a really good text for Perl programming, although from your comments I’d guess that book would really be considered much more advanced–Einstein on steroids? Anyone who has had some exposure to programming previously could probably could follow “Perl by Example”.
Actually I think Koha should have been written in Java. Maybe for Koha 3.2 the developers will switch from Perl to Java?
July 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Why switch?
July 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I can recommend “Effective Perl Programming” for a concise mid-level book:
http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Perl-Programming-Programs-Developers/dp/0201419750/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books
It helps refine some of the clumsier approaches that I picked up as a beginner.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Haha Greg! Nice joke! No, as you know, Koha 3.2 will be in Perl and Koha 4.0 will be in Lisp.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Oh geeze !!
July 15th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Thanks Joe, unfortunately the last time I used Perl was in 2000 - so I think I need a beginner book!