Thanks, Jonathan!
I'm pretty sure that O'Reilly will give a free copy of many of their recent books that they publish to any members who would like to write a book review. If there's one that any of you are interested in reviewing for the group, let me know and I can help you get a copy. -Andy On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:52:50PM -0500, djgoku wrote: > Learning Perl 4th Edition > Authors: Randal L. Schwartz, Tome Phoenix & brian d foy > ISBN: 0-596-10105-8 > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/ > > Review by Jonathan C. Otsuka > Kansas City Perl Mongers > http://kc.pm.org > 2007-10-04 > > I have put off this review of Learning Perl 4th Edition for well over > a year now. One reason I let this go so long is I didn't think at the > time after reading it that I was good enough to write a review about > something so new to learn. I know now that this book was only the > beginning into learning a new language, and that only reading one book > can't make you an expert (and I don't claim to be one yet). > > After reading Learning Perl. Here are a list of things taught in the > book that make me use Perl more and more. > > Scalar data is a really neat and easy way of storing data used in Perl > programs. You don't have to know exactly what type it is going to be > an int, char, float, string you just create a variable and store the > data unlike you have to do in C/C++. > > Having an easy way of iterating through arrays or hashes is very > simple using a for loop. Hashes are a really neat data structure like > arrays which instead of using numbers as indexes you use whatever you > like as a index which is then use to retrieve a stored value. > > Perl is very strong at searching scalar data. Searching strings and > matching a particular string is made easy with regular expressions. > > Another thing which isn't talked about much is CPAN and using modules > others have created to make your job as the programmer even easier. > > I will have to say this book was a very good introduction into Perl (I > still use it from time to time as a reference). It has really helped > me in getting the basic syntax of Perl down. I would totally recommend > this book to anyone that is wanting to begin the journey into > programming with Perl. > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > kc mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
