On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 15:03 -0700, Slick wrote: > I have a couple of questions. > > What is a good starter perl book to learn perl.
Best learning Perl book is 'Learning Perl'. Also known as the Lama book. There are other good texts also, but imho that is by far the best. > > Secondly, I am kinda having trouble assimilating all the perl > information. I want to know ways that you all remember the format of > a script as well as the main items that are normally use. I know > about the Scalars (word for a word with $ used. $a=2), Array (several > items @b= (1, 2, 3). I am just having problems figuring out when and > where they would be used and to a point reading a script. I once read that Perl was written to be programmer friendly, not learner friendly, and that the best way to learn Perl is to use it every day for at least 20 mins. Come to think of it, that advice may well have come from the Lama book. > > Hope you don't mind my questions. Just trying to compliment my A+ > skills, trying to be a IT tech and that would help for system > administration (how I don't know yet, cause I am still learning) No idea how much Perl is used in Windows admin, but I'd hate to admin a nix box without any Perl skills. > > Jason H. Owens > Tim Bowden -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
