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        Much of this documentation is incomplete - please consider
        <a href="/about/">contributing to improve it</a>.
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        <h3>For newcomers</h3>
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	    <li><a href="http://github.com/perl6/book">Using Perl&nbsp;6 (Onyx Neon Press book)</a>
            (in progress - <a
                href="https://github.com/downloads/perl6/book/2011.01.a4.pdf">2011-01 snapshot</a>)</li>
            <li><a href="http://szabgab.com/perl6.html#screencast">Perl&nbsp;6 screencasts</a></li>
	    <li><a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/perl-6-advent-calendar/">Perl&nbsp;6
            Advent Calendar 2009</a>, <a
            href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/merry-christmas-2/">2010</a>,
            <a
href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/perl-6-advent-calendar-2011/">2011</a></li>
	    <li><a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_6_Programming">"Perl&nbsp;6 Programming"</a> on Wikibooks</li>
	    <li><a href="http://github.com/perlpilot/perl6-docs">Perl&nbsp;6 tutorials</a></li>
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    	<h3>Code examples</h3>
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            <li><a href="http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Perl_6">Rosetta Code</a>, programming problems solved in Perl&nbsp;6 side-by-side with hundreds of other languages</li>
            <li><a
                href="http://github.com/perl6/perl6-examples">perl6-examples</a>,
            lots of example programs written in Perl&nbsp;6 (WARNING: might be
            outdated)</li>
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	<h3>For Perl 5 programmers</h3>
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            <li><a href="http://perlgeek.de/en/article/5-to-6">Perl&nbsp;5 to 6</a>, introduction for Perl&nbsp;5 programmers</li>
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    	<h3>Other Books & Print Publications</h3>
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            <li><a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007379">Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, Second Edition</a> (O'Reilly book) (2004)</li>
            <li><a href="http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590593952">Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5</a> (Apress book) (2004)</li>
            <li><a href="http://www.learningperl6.com/">Learning Perl&nbsp;6</a> (O'Reilly book) (in progress)</li>
            <li><a href="#">Programming Perl&nbsp;6</a> (O'Reilly book) (in progress)</li>
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        <h3>Compendiums and cheatsheets</h3>
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            <li><a href="http://perlcabal.org/syn/">Official Perl&nbsp;6 documentation</a></li>
	    <li><a href="http://tablets.perl6.org">Perl Tablets</a>, a hypertext Perl&nbsp;6 compendium with lots of appendices</li>
      	    <li><a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/periodic/">Periodic table</a> of Perl&nbsp;6 operators</li>
            <li><a href="http://github.com/perl6/mu/raw/master/docs/Perl6/Cheatsheet/cheatsheet.txt">Perl&nbsp;6 Cheat Sheet</a></li>
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    	<h3>Miscellaneous sources</h3>
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            <li><a href="http://www.jnthn.net/articles.shtml">Presentations by Jonathan Worthington</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~lichtkind/Perl6-Doc/lib/Perl6/Doc.pm">Perl6::Doc</a>, learn about Perl&nbsp;6 in your shell via perldoc</li>
            <li><a href="http://github.com/hinrik/grok/">Grok</a>, a Perl&nbsp;6 documentation reader</li>
            <li><a href="http://szabgab.com/">szabgab</a>'s <a href="http://szabgab.com/perl6.html">Perl&nbsp;6 Training Course material</a> and <a href="http://szabgab.com/perl6_tricks_and_treats.html">some general tips</a></li>
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