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Learning Perl

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sourav123
sourav123 Original post #1
May 2, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Hi,

I am thinking about learning Perl. Can you please point me to a good book to start with. I have a bit of programming language knowledge but I want to start from basics.
JGuru
JGuru #2
May 3, 2008 at 12:47 PM
You can checkout this link Perl Tutorial : *www.sthomas.net/roberts-perl-tutorial.htm

Also Oreilly's : *www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/10/begperl1.html

My advice is go for Oreilly's book on Perl : *www.oreilly.com/pub/topic/perl
dheeraj_kumar
May 3, 2008 at 4:09 PM
I have a book called Learn CGI/Perl in 21 days by SAMS publishers. That one is quite good for beginners. I bought that book at class 8, and I could understand it :D
ninad_mhatre85
May 4, 2008 at 12:55 AM
best way to learn is try some online tut suggested by JGuru
do hands on install perl on windows or if u have linux its pre installed.

and one more think try to learn regular expression this is best part of scripting ...
aasisvinayak
May 7, 2008 at 10:56 PM
if you are lookig for introductory stuff, then you can get them form my support forum
aasisvinayak
May 8, 2008 at 1:07 PM
Beginners:

Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
*www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/ (Beginning Perl by Simon Cozens)

Learning Perl - Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix

Advanced Users:


Mastering Perl By Brian Foy
Advanced Perl Programming By Simon Cozens
Professional Perl and MySQL (Professional Perl and MySQL)

For trials:

Wicked Cool Perl Scripts By Steve Oualline
desiibond
May 8, 2008 at 1:24 PM
My pick would be

Learning Perl - Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix

Superb book for beginners