> I would like to find "cookbooks" or books that go over the subject
 > matter heavily "by example" for several topic areas: Perl, Bash shell
 >scripting, C++, and Python....

For Python, you might consider "/Invent Your Own Computer Games with=20
Python/" ( http://inventwithpython.com/ ).

Daniel
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