Since you're having problems with decidedly Perl things, you need to back up and lower the bar some. First, you need to just concentrate on Perl. Buy Learning Perl and Programming Perl from Oreilly, they are excellent books (only buy the second after you understand the first). Then, try writing sample programs in Perl alone. For example, make your AD&D character tracker without mySQL or the web first. Once you have mastered that, then relook at the O'Reilly CGI book and it will make much more sense. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 2:35 PM Subject: Help starting out....
> 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
