Re: Is "The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide" from No Starch Press good for gnome-perl?

[Brian McGonigle <brian mcgonigle verizon net>]

Jan Hudec wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 04:44:31 -0400, Brian McGonigle wrote:
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm new to this list and would like to use the GNOME API in perl. I've 
> > read about 2/3 of Practical C Programming from O'Reilly a little over 2 
> > years ago and that's about the extent of my experience with C. I never 
> > finished the book because I picked up Learning Perl at that time and 
> > never looked back. I was wondering if "The Official GNOME 2 Developer's 
> > Guide" would be any good for someone with no experience in C trying to 
> > learn gnome-perl. Any recommendations? Also, if I have GTK+ for Win32 
> > can I use gnome-perl? I hoping there's a binary package somewhere if I can.
> >    
>
> As you sure have read on the gtk2-perl web, the perl API closely follows
> the C API. It follows it closely enough for the C documentation to be
> relevant.
>
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>                                                  Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb ucw cz
I've read that. I like the idea of having a book though. I'm on the 
train about 2.5 hours a day and a printed copy of the C docs would be 
too cumbersome. Would I be better off buying the book or cramming the C 
docs into my PDA?