on 03/22/2001 04:46 PM, Graeme Porteous at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (to whom a
complimentary cc: of this post was sent) wrote:
> I downloaded MacPerl a while back, and I'm just stating to use it but
> I have no idea where to start. I would really appreciate it if someone
> could point in the direction of a good tutorial, a good book and a web
> site with sample some scripts.
I started out with two books:
"MacPerl, Power and Ease" by VIcki Brown and Chris Nandor
"Programming Perl" by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal Schwartz
...both of which I've read several times through as my perl knowledge grew
over time, so that I could absorb more each time I passed through the book.
Also I started reading the Usenet newsgroups[1] comp.lang.perl.misc,
comp.lang.perl.modules, and comp.lang.perl.moderated ... just reading to see
what sort of questions *other* people were asking and watching to see how
they were answered. after a couple of months I started posting my own
questions, once I had a feel for the atmosphere there and had a good idea of
where to look for info.
The POD documentation that came with your copy of MacPerl is also of
ENORMOUS importance and value -- literally you have the manual in your hands
already (both in the Macperl Ÿ:pod: folder and in the pod documentation in
the perl modules in MacPerl Ÿ:lib: as well) read through *those* as well,
before posting questions to usenet or the mailing list, and you will help
yourself to a better understanding and will thus be able to post better
questions :)
later on after I got deeply into Perl I picked up
"Programming the Perl DBI" by Alligator Descartes & Tim Bunce
"Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway (which I'm still trying to grok)
> Also is this the best mailing list for me to be on?
definitely :)
[1] If you're on a Mac, I cannot recommend a usenet reader more than
MT-Newswatcher (short for Multi-Threaded Newswatcher, it's an updated
version of John Norstad's original Newswatcher app). Hands-down the absolute
winner. More Mac-like than 90% of the apps I use. :) you can pick it up
here: http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/ Comes with complete documentation, too if
you're unfamiliar or partially familiar with Usenet.
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