i would go with the cannon , tom christiansen's book can be covered well within 21 days.
2009/3/12 Shlomi Fish <[email protected]>: > On Thursday 12 March 2009 17:58:40 Berler Chanan wrote: >> Depends on how well she needs to know perl and how fast does she needs it. >> The basics are there, the simple examples are there. >> I needed this book to review some stuff, but it was tooooooooooooo low >> written for taste. >> But as a quicky reminder of concepts it was not so bad. > > I see. > >> >> PS: if books she wants, I have ~250mb of perl books (in all variations and >> flavors) that I can sent /upload to the web >> For her :-) > > She wants something on paper. Don't know if a printout will be acceptable as > well, but if this is the case, then she can also print the online "Beginning > Perl" PDFs. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > >> Thanks >> Chanan >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Shlomi Fish >> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:27 PM >> To: Perl in Israel >> Cc: International Perl Beginners >> Subject: [Israel.pm] Can anyone comment on "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 >> Days" ? >> >> 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. >> >> If you've read it, can you comment how good did you find it? >> >> 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. >> >> ------------ >> >> So any comments on this book will be welcome. >> >> Regards, >> >> Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Parody on "The Fountainhead" - http://xrl.us/bjria > > God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we > read. > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > -- -- vish _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
