Depends, are you starting a fire in the fireplace and need scrap paper? The Sam's XXX in 21 Days series are spotty. Sometimes the book is right on and sometimes the number of errors per page starts approaching the National Debt.
The Perl in 21 days falls into the latter category. There are large numbers of typoes and out-right errors in the text. The book was based on Perl 5.6 when I last looked at it, and the examples were mechanically converted from Perl4 to Perl5 and not run through a Perl interpreter to see if they even compiled. (They made the same mistake in five different examples, converting apostrophes to single colons in package names -- it's "::"....) Get a copy of Randall's Llama and work through the examples. Much better for you in the long run. B On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Slick <jho251...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Has anybody read this book? I just want a review, to know if it is worth > purchasing for a beginning. > > Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days > Jason H. Owens > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
