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Author Can anyone recommend a good beginning Perl book?
rankenory@gmail.com

2006-10-22, 9:56 pm

The book I was learning from had a lot of code errors, so I'm looking
to buy another one, but don't want to waste time & money again on
another poorly written book. Any recommendation on a good Perl book
for a beginner?

shness@gmail.com

2006-10-23, 3:57 am

I recently worked through the "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" and
liked it a lot. There were a few mistakes in the examples, but they
weren't hard to fix when I compiled the code. A lot of people start
with the Oreilly books, so they may be pretty good, but I couldn't tell
you since I never used them.

Scott

Paul Lalli

2006-10-23, 7:57 am

rankenory@gmail.com wrote:
> The book I was learning from had a lot of code errors, so I'm looking
> to buy another one, but don't want to waste time & money again on
> another poorly written book. Any recommendation on a good Perl book
> for a beginner?


The canonical book for learning Perl is, not surprisingly, "Learning
Perl", by Randal Schwartz. Once you "graduate" from that book, you can
move on to its sequel "Intermediate Perl".

For a free alternative, there is a free ebook version of Beginning Perl
available on http://learn.perl.org

Paul Lalli

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