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Check this node out
by gryng (Hermit) on Sep 05, 2000 at 08:31 UTC
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I think you will find some nice reviews (not just patting my back,
after all I think I only wrote one of them) at this node: Book Reviews.
I would get Learning Perl or Programming Perl (both from O'reilly). The
main difference is that the first assumes less about your actual programming
expertise, whereas the second assumes you are confortable with programming.
Ciao,
Gryn
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RE: Best Perl Book
by davorg (Chancellor) on Sep 05, 2000 at 11:00 UTC
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If your friend is a real novice programmer, then I'd
recommend Andrew Johnson's "Elements of Programming with
Perl" which assumes no previous programming knowledge.
Having read that and got to grips with Perl, then the
new edition of "CGI Programming with Perl" would be pretty
useful.
After that, there are a numbr of books that every
Perl programmer should have: "Programming Perl", "The
Perl Cookbook", "Effective Perl Programming" and "Mastering
Regular Expressions".
--
<http://www.dave.org.uk>
European Perl Conference - Sept 22/24 2000, ICA, London
<http://www.yapc.org/Europe/>
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You can find a {ahem} great review of Elements of Programming with Perl in the Reviews section.
"sometimes when you make a request for the head you don't
want the big, fat body...don't you go snickering."
-- Nathan Torkington UoP2K a.k.a gnat
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RE: Best Perl Book
by Adam (Vicar) on Sep 06, 2000 at 03:07 UTC
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Everything I needed to know about Perl I learned at PerlMonks.orgTM
J/K. Actually I found the Camel book to be a near perfect resource when I was starting out. And I still use it regularly. Of course, now you would want the three hump version.
Oh, if you or your friend decides to buy a book online, please Support the Monastery.
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RE: Best Perl Book
by OzzyOsbourne (Chaplain) on Sep 05, 2000 at 19:42 UTC
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PERL is not a dirty word. They do not sell PERL books out of the back of dirty bookstores. If you want to learn PERL, er I mean if your "friend" wants to learn PERL, it's OK. It's perfectly natural to feel curious about these things.
I looked at all of the books on PERL in a few bookstores, and the one that made the most sense to me was SAMS "Teach Yourself PERL in 21 days." Finding a good book on anything depends highly on how you learn. Some books will make perfect sense to some people and not others. I couldn't make heads or tails of the o'reilly books, although they are always highly recommended. Head down to the local mega bookstore, and look through the PERL books until you find one that makes sense to you.
I mean, uh, one that makes sense to your "friend".
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OzzyOsbourne wrote:
I looked at all of the books on PERL in a few bookstores, and the one that made the most sense to me was SAMS "Teach Yourself PERL in 21 days."
This book was really good when it covered perl4, but the perl 5 version is a complete rewrite (by Laura Lemay if I remember correctly) and is no good.
I recommended it to an ambitious and effective webmaster, believing the book was just an update of the old one. She found it next to useless for a beginner, you simply choke on the first examples unless you are accustomed to reading STDIN.
/jeorgen
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I actually used the version 5 book starting at ground zero. I found it really useful. That's just me.
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Your just like my mom. She thinks that she knows everything.
sincerily
Mork29's friend
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RE: Best Perl Book
by d4vis (Chaplain) on Sep 05, 2000 at 21:31 UTC
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I'd suggest that before buying a book, your friend should find out a little about perl first. There are a dozen online tutorials that would help him get his feet wet writing simple cgi's (try a search on perl tutorial). I know for me, a beginning programmer, I should have looked into Java before rushing out to buy a book and then deciding I didn't really like the language very much. When I decided to learn perl I knew better. I checked it out via a few tutorials first, decided I really liked it's capabilities and (maybe as importantly) it's 'design philosophy' for lack of a better term, and then went out and bought "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems".
That's what worked best for me.
Your results may vary.
-d4vis
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I did the same as you. Now I love the language. Even though Im you are probably alot better, but more experienced then I. I started off at cgi101.com, then webmonkey.com and they really helped me get into it and now Im jumping along for knowledge. Thanks, Later
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RE: Best Perl Book
by ant (Scribe) on Sep 11, 2000 at 19:25 UTC
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A book that has not been mentioned that I found usefull
when learning Perl was 'CGI programming on the world wide
web'. I recommend this and the 'Programming Perl' to get a
good grounding in the basics. And there are loads of
websites with tutorials and faqs to help with problems that
most beginners get stuck with.
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RE: Best Perl Book
by geektron (Curate) on Sep 06, 2000 at 06:49 UTC
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the one I actually found most useful while learning was 'Perl 5 Interactive Course'. Written by John Orwant (once of the porters, IIRC), and pretty fine at introducing both some programming notions and Perl (since I was new to both). Since then, the Cookbook, OO-Perl, and the Camel book have been indispensible. I learned a bit from reading/ applying Learning Perl, but it came together after the 'Course' book. | [reply] |
