On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 02:04:15PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > 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/ .
thanks for those links, i think i can start off with "learning perl" and take it up from there. btw, most people and web pages don't mention it, but, "mastering algorithms with perl" is also supposedly a good book, though only a very old edition is available. again, thanks for the tips. :) ~mayuresh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
