I would guess that these kids do not have access to computers outside school. Which makes access to printed material advantageous. I guess a printer would be nice, but by the time the cost of it, paper, ink, and other supplies are factored in, I would guess that books would be cheaper.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Stone, Derrick J [mailto:DJS6D@;hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 9:01 AM > To: John Saylor; Nick Tonkin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [OT] Wanted: beginning perl books for poor kids > > > Amen. > http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/start.html > http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Training/PerlIntro/ > http://www.ebb.org/PickingUpPerl/ > http://www.cclabs.missouri.edu/things/instruction/perl/perlcourse.html > http://www.lanka.pair.com/techweb/perl/tutor/ > oh wait... did you say spanish? > http://epq.com.co/~cjara/perl/tutorial.html > no? German? > http://www.tekromancer.com/perl/inhalt.html > Japanese? > http://plaza27.mbn.or.jp/~satomii/jdoc/ > > Perldoc is a challenge if you're new, because the syntax can > be hard to pick up. But for a good tutorial, a nice printer > would go a long way... > > Derrick Stone > Internet Specialist > Web Development Center > UVa Health System > ICQ# 1464194 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Saylor [mailto:johns@;worldwinner.com] > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 9:05 AM > To: Nick Tonkin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] Wanted: beginning perl books for poor kids > > > Hi > > ( 02.10.31 21:57 -0800 ) Nick Tonkin: > > I'm excited to get them going in perl, and I want to appeal > to the list > > for donations of books on learning perl. > > I'd say the best 'books' are all on line. Don't underestimate the > [lowly] man pages. Or perldoc [-f]. > > And there are stories and tutorials and good stuff at > perl.apache.org or > perlmonks.org or www.perl.org [and so on]. Hopefully, your > students [or > school] has/have the resources necessary to use the on line resources. > > Good luck! > > -- > .--- ... > >
