Some obvious resources are here, 'Learning Perl', various other O'Reilly books, and some of the New Riders books on MySql. These I have. I plan to turn him loose with Learning Perl, and make him work through the exercises. Any more specific suggestions for bringing people from a Java/VB background to a working knowledge of Perl fairly quickly?
If you have a programming background, Learning Perl can be very boring at best ;) That is, if you do all exercizes. Let him read it, and have it followed by Programming Perl optionally, but no matter what: teach him to use perldoc, and use it a lot. Make clear you rather have him read very good documentation than code by brute force. The time "wasted" on reading is gained elsewhere.
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