For my $.02 I'd say that the best book I've come across for teaching the uninitiated is Perl from the Ground Up by Michael McMillan (Osborne/McGraw Hill Publishing). I got more into the O'Reilley books after I was a little more comfortable with Perl.
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:57 PM To: Naika - EV1 Cc: Yacketta, Ronald; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Help me out The books that Matthew suggested are excellent resources, I've found (though I would also recommend "Programming Perl", also from O'Reilly). Another excellent way of learning how to program is read other peoples' code, figure out how to break it and fix it, and adapt it to your own needs. My father-in-law, a C/C++/Java programmer, tells me that there has only ever been one program written. The rest are just hacks off of that one program. I found it very useful, when learning the basics (as I still am, actually), to go to free script archive sites, such as Matt's Script Archive, download some scripts, read the documentation to learn how to tweak them, and play with that. On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 15:48, Naika - EV1 wrote: > Yeah I agree, I owe about 5 perl books and have read them all but still find > it difficult to code the most basic of things. I wish there were more step > by step how to's out there. I'm documenting my progress and plan to do a > site sometime that caters to the most uneducated of learners. If any sites > like that exist already let me know. Sometimes I learn better from seeing, > being on the artistic side of the mind. > > - Naika > http://www.naikaonline.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yacketta, Ronald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Help me out > > > its that simple? WoW! I must have fubarbed somewhere, I have those books as > well as several others and hell I am not even close to be a pro!/me dreams > about the day I can be a perl gawd like Randel (spelling) > > -Ron > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matthew Peter Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 11:49 > > To: amrinder singh; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Help me out > > > > > > get the O'Riley learning perl book > > get the black book > > get the cookbook ( O'Riley ) > > > > you'll be a pro. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "amrinder singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:24 PM > > Subject: Help me out > > > > > > > I have just started learning perl a day ago. > > > > > > Can anybody guide me on how to start? I am really > > interested in learning > > > the language > > > > > > > > > AMRINDER > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Sliante, Richard S. Crawford mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Yahoo!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery "Push the button, Max!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
