Ok, I need to ask you guys for some help and advice.
I am working on learning Perl, but am having a hard time. I am very
familiar with C++, but Perl seems a lot more complex for some reason.
I currently have CGI Programming with Perl from O'Reilly, and Using Perl
5 for Web Programming from Que publishing. These seem like good books,
but just aren't working for me.
I guess I should explain my goals. I have my Windows machine set up
running IIS (just for testing) and mySQL 4 alpha. I want to learn to
make simple databases using Perl and mySQL. Just simple things like
Guestbooks are being hard on me, let alone anything else. I was thinking
of making an AD&D character tracker just for fun (since it's normally
easier to learn things if you are having fun too), but I can't even
fathom how to do some of these things, such as having a list of number
(whereas in c++ it would be int foo[x];) in mySQL.
I can find very little online oddly enough that doesn't seem over my
head on mySQL and Perl. Does anyone have a good beginner's tutorial on
mySQL and Perl? I understand simple file i/o, but it doesn't seem to
apply the same and gets really complicated quickly with mySQL.
Thanks guys,
David Fisher
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