On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:46:17PM -0700, Matthew Walker wrote: > > On Wed, March 4, 2009 9:40 pm, Matt Nelson wrote: > > P.S. If I buy a book based on your recomendations and I don't like it YOU > > WILL HEAR ABOUT IT! jk. For what it's worth I am more of a visual learner, > > and learn by examples. > > First, I must recommend the Perl Cookbook. It has served me very well, and is > a great > resource for those of us who learn by example.
Agreed. However, it is not a book for learning Perl all by itself. Do buy another book as well. > > Secondly, in all seriousness, when I was just starting with Perl, I > got a great deal of value out of Perl For Dummies. I lied in my job > interview about whether I knew perl, and bought PFD on the way > home. By the time work started, I was competent enough to not rock > the boat. :) (Admittedly, already being fluent in two or three other > languages made that a LOT easier) I can't speak to PFD, but the Camel Book, Programming Perl, is a more traditional first book. Probably better for your purpose is the Llama Book, Learning Perl, Randall Schwartz. Other than PFD, the books we've mentioned are all from O'Reilly, http://oreilly.com/perl/. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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