Dave, I highly recommend most of the O'Reilly books, but especially "Learning Perl" by Randal Schwartz. For spot reference I like SAMS "Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" and IDG's "Perl for Dummies," although there are portions of each in which your more militant Perl programmers would say their examples leave something to be desired. For the "raw beginner" they have some good info, however.
I have been in a similar situation, needing help on things that are more basic to the experienced community. I find this list to be helpful, too. Word of caution: I tried getting help on IRC (irc.debian.org) and found the Perl community there to be much less helpful and much more arrogant (if any of you are on this list, I'm definitely generalizing, so please take that with a grain of salt). "RTFM" is a common response there, even if you -have- RTFM. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Greenhalgh David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:05 PM To: drieux Cc: cgi cgi-list Subject: Re: Difference of $hash, and %hash. (was Getting my head round hashes) On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 11:20 pm, drieux wrote: > > On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 14:33 US/Pacific, Greenhalgh David wrote: > [..] >> My thanks to both of you. The explanation was clear even to me, >> much better than the book i am using to learn perl. > [..] > > which book are you trying to learn from? > > Several books, in fact. Basic learning to crawl stuff from Perl and CGI by Elizabeth Castro and proper stuff from a book that's just called Perl. I managed to leave it at work so i don't recall the author, but that one is very comprehensive and is clearly written for people who know what they are talking about. My /real/ problem is that object oriented code is a foreign language. My job is with microwave comms hardware and I have no need to do software at all, so an explanation which is plain as day to people who speak the language is far from that to a raw beginner like me. Nevertheless, it is by challenging ourselves that we learn and it is by finding patient souls like this list to nurse us through the process that we survive the learning! Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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