Being a rank novice at Perl and programming (20 years past Basic and Fortran
in college), I am also finding Elements of Programming With Perl by Andrew
L. Johnson to be great. I'm also considering Beginning Perl by Simon Cozens
if anyone has feedback.
BRET
-----Original Message-----
From: John Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:10 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Perl Beginners (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Reading versus Referencing Books
I think it depends on how much experience you have with programming and the
concepts of it as a whole.
If you can already code C/C++/Java/Javascript etc, etc then you can easily
transition to perl by looking at others code and reference texts, as you
suggest.
I came to Perl as after dabbling in Javascript and Visual Basic. I found
this book really useful in learning not just Perl, but better coding
practices in general. It's designed to teach Perl and programming in general
hand in hand.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1884777805/o/qid=992621339/sr=2-1/ref
=aps_sr_b_1_1/102-9078910-5766562
John
