Hi! On Thursday 12 March 2009 18:52:05 Francisco Valladolid wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> 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. > > Never book is bad, it was writtent with a purpose, whenever in the > world exists more good fine books.
Well, books that are misleading or contain dis-information or mis-information are bad, and may result in programmers that produce sloppy or even dangerous code. As such, they are bad. See, for example: http://xrl.us/bejfw7 . > I never chose this series, such as 21 days, /Dummies/24 hrs./for busy > people/ etc. Neither do I. Of course, I normally try to learn new technologies from Internet resources, because I don't have a problem in reading long texts on the computer. I still read technical paper books, but it's for reading before going to bed. > I think that you can choice the Learning Perl from Randal Schwartz or > Elements of Programming with Perl (Manning Ed.) > particularly are my favorite introductory books. Yes, those or Beginning Perl ( http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/ ) would be my choice too. I admit I haven't read them, but I'm judging them based on reputation. However, my point was that my pupil found this book in a library and borrowed it (which didn't cost her anything), and I can either tell her that it's OK to read it and learn from it, or that she should print or buy (depending on her preferences) a different book. > > > If you've read it, can you comment how good did you find it? > > No yet. > OK. > > Here's what I've found so far: > > > > 1. The book has a page on books.perl.org: http://books.perl.org/book/98 . > > There are no reviews, and it received an average rating of 2.2/5 from 6 > > votes. I also see that it has a second edition released in 2002. > > > > 2. The Amazon.com page is: > > > > http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-Perl-Days/dp/0672320355 > > > > It received an average rating of 4 stars and mostly positive reviews. > > Perl books are well know in the Perl community, please check the list > archives for a good book recommendation. I don't have a problem with finding a good book. But I just want to see if I should recommend her against the "in 21 Days" book. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
