worth getting?
This is probably not what this forum is meant for but has anyone learn perl through Learning Perl (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565922840/qid=955476217/sr=1-3...) is the url on amazon. I would like to know if it is any good before I buy it.
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Maverick posted this at 18:22 — 11th April 2000.
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While I have not read that particular book, the O'Reilly books that I've read have been uniformly well-written and useful. It's a publisher that I trust.
johnnyboy posted this at 19:50 — 11th April 2000.
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Minton,
While I have not read that book, I did learn Perl through "Sams - Teach Yourself Perl in 24 hours." It's not that it's a bad book, but I wouldn't recommend it. Just my 2 cents if you were considering that book too.
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Orpheus posted this at 20:44 — 11th April 2000.
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Thats a great book. I chat with the author now and then on IRC.
It's the best book to buy if you want to learn Perl.
fairhousing posted this at 07:38 — 12th April 2000.
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the best way to learn anything in my mind it to disect it. books r just used as a reference resource.
in other words, get a hold of some script and disect them to see what each sub routine, command, etc does.
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Gil posted this at 02:10 — 13th April 2000.
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I agree with fairhousing. It's hard for me to write a whole program in any language without a reference book sitting next to me. By dissecting code you'll learn the proper syntax of the language. Once you learn syntax, sky's the limit. That's how I'm familiar with about 6 programming/scripting languages (whatever you choose to call them).
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Anonymous posted this at 08:18 — 18th April 2000.
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i also have "Sams teach yourself perl in 24hours", but i havent had time to get into it, it looks good!!
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