Hi Mayuresh, On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 16:06:56 +0530 Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote:
> hi, this is my first mail to this list, and the first time i'll be > working with perl. > > i've been searching for books on learning and mastering perl and found > the series by o'reilly to be quite well recommended. > > would i be right in my assumption about the o'reilly books being good? > if not, are there any better books out there, for a newbie to perl and > for someone returning to programming after a gap of more than 7 years. > Well, I don't know what you mean by "The series by O’Reilly". O'Reilly has the trio of /Learning Perl/, /Intermediate Perl/ and /Mastering Perl/ books as well as the book /Programming Perl/ (a.k.a The Camel) as well as other books. The general recommendation on Freenode's #perl is: 1. If you have prior experience to programming, then you should read chromatic’s book /Modern Perl/ (which is available online with its sources under the Creative Commons by-nc-sa licence): http://perl-begin.org/books/#modern-perl (Note that perl-begin.org is my domain). 2. If you don't, then check out the new edition of the book Beginning Perl by Curtis “Ovid” Poe, which I believe is also available. 3. After all that, you should read the page http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/ , which is largely based on the book http://perl-begin.org/books/advanced/#pbp (but I excluded some advice I didn’t consider important and added some stuff of my own). 4. You can consult the list and other resources for info on learning what you want to do with Perl and make sure you make a wise use of CPAN: http://perl-begin.org/topics/cpan/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ Knuth is not God! God has already released TeX version 4.0. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
