Hi Raymond,
On Friday 13 March 2009 05:24:58 Raymond Wan wrote:
> Hi Shlomi,
>
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I've been tutoring someone in Perl 5, and as she wants to learn Perl from
> > a paperware book, she borrowed the book "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21
> > Days" from her workplace's library, and started reading it. Now, all
> > those "in 21 Days"/"in 24 hours"/"unleashed"/"for Dummies"/etc. books
> > tend to have a bad reputation among knowledgeable people, so I'd like to
> > know how good this particular book is, so I won't have to undo the damage
> > if it's bad.
>
> I can't comment on this book in particular, but I did go through "Sams
> Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days". I went through the book a long, long time
> ago and I thought this series was gone...surprised to just look on Amazon
> and see that it's up to a 5th edition. *yikes*
>
> The book isn't bad and books like these or the "Dummies" series don't
> deserve the negative comments. They aren't great, but they obviously sell
> and they sell because they satisfy a niche. It's for the busy people or
> the ones who just want to have their hand held at first. That niche would
> perhaps be not the people on this list who have chosen to use O'Reilly
> books, etc. (Learning Perl, etc.). So, I doubt you're going to get any
> positive comments.
>
I see. Thanks for the comments.
> I think if the person you are tutoring has a computer science background
> (i.e., used other languages before), then she might find this book and this
> series a bit boring.
Actually, she still has very little CS background.
> But otherwise, it's a good warm-up and if she finds
> she has a thirst for more Perl afterwards, then she might want to try
> another one like Learning Perl.
OK, thanks.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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