I've used the following two books and they were great for learning. Beginning Perl by Simon Cozens. Wrox Publishing. ISBN: 1861003145 MySQL by Paul DuBois. New Riders Publishing. ISBN: 0735709211
I created a web frontend to a database and a couple other web apps with the two above books and help from the following book Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm by Lincoln Stein (Creator of CGI.pm). ISBN:0471247448 The following book may be better for your application. MySQL and Perl for the Web by Paul DuBois. New Riders. ISBN: 0735710546 I also have Programming Perl and the Perl Cookbook. They are great resources. HTH Keith -----Original Message----- From: Lance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 5:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help starting out.... My vote is for "Learning Perl" followed by "Programming Perl" followed by the "Perl Cookbook" all O'Reily books. "David Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 000201c22e89$d4b7d590$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:000201c22e89$d4b7d590$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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] > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.377 / Virus Database: 211 - Release Date: 7/15/2002 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
