At 10:38 AM 09/26/2001 +0800, "louie miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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>Hi, im just wondering whats the best cgi/perl book?
>
What's the "best" religion? ;)
There aint no such animal. You have to be more specific with the
question...It really depends on what your needs and skill level are. A book
that is great for people who have neither Perl or general programming
experience would probably be terrible for someone who has programming
background, but is new to Perl.
Personally, I can recommend the following books:
If you're new to both programming in general as well as Perl, "Elements of
Programming with Perl" by Andrew Johnson is one of the best primers out there.
I also heartily recommend Randal's book, "Learning Perl". I haven't seen
the newly released third edition (which i understand is a complete rewrite
of the 2nd edition), but the 2nd edition really helped me get up to speed
with Perl. Randal is an excellent and funny writer as well, so the book is
actually fun to read.
If you're new to Perl, but already have experience with programming,
"Programming Perl" by Larry Wall (aka "the Camel book") is the one to get.
It's considered to be the Bible of Perl programming in any case, so even if
you're a newbie programmer in general, you should get this book as well for
reference purposes.
In any case, this question is in the FAQ for this mailing list:
http://learn.perl.org/beginners-faq (item 3.3) you might want to check it
out for more suggestions, as well as:
Uri Guttman's Perl book reviews: http://www.sysarch.com/cgi-bin/perl_books
Tom Christiansen's camel Critiques: language.perl.com/critiques/
Perlmonks review page: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Reviews
Aloha,
mel
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