Organization

The first two chapters generally present material in order of increasing complexity. Otherwise, we tend to jump around quite a bit. Use the table of contents and the index, and keep the Perl documentation close at hand (perhaps by visiting http://perldoc.perl.org/).

We reorganized the book for the second edition. Appendix B shows a mapping from Items in the first edition to Items in this edition. We split some first-edition Items into many new ones and expanded them; some we combined; and some we left out, since their topics are well covered in other books. Appendix A contains a list of additional resources we think you should consider.