Thanks man! I fully plan on reading that book! Everyone's been recommending it to me everywhere I turn! I generally trust O'Reilly's offerings to begin with. But I figure, it can't exactly hurt to finish the book I'm already half way through! Also generally speaking I tend to like to get my feet wet with a Sams 21 Days book and reinforce what I learned through more credible resources. That's how I did it with C++ at any rate, and I had some success there. So I decided that I am going to follow that formula again with Perl.
Also, I
I've found that writers inevitably see the same things in different ways. Obviously, one can never duplicate the exact experience or point of view of another human being! And I find that reading the exact same topic matter, covered from inevitably differing perspectives, has been immeasurably advantageous as a learning strategy. | [reply] |
