Hi all, sorry i think its the otherway around. first one should know the technical basics of Perl language then dive into books like 'Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics'. As far as i have seen people who have learnt Perl language initially and then read books like those fared far better than people who took those books without knowing what Perl language is.
regards, KM ------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:08:21PM -0000, Harvey Kelly wrote: > Hello, > > If you've no experience whatsoever, then Beginning Perl for > Bioinformatics is > very helpful - then move on to Learning Perl I guess. It assumes no > prior > knowledge, and although its focus is on Biology, it's all just data > isn't it? > > Cheers, > > Harvey > > ------------------- > >On 2/4/2004 10:17 PM, wolf blaum wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> I like: > >> > >> Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz & Tom Phoenix as a good > introduction > with > >> tons of further references > >> > >> Programing Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant as > the > ultimate > >> refernce and pillow > >> > >> Mastering Perl/Tk by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh for times when I > dont > have > >> access to this mailing list and zentaras hints > >> > >> The Perl Cookbook by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington for > when I > was to > >> lasy to think for myself (or wanted to get depressed by how much > better one > >> could solve the problem Ive been working on in hunderts of lines) > >> > >> And even though I never read it in the linear way: Mastering > regular > >> expressions by Jeffrey Friedl > >> > >> Not to forget: perldoc perltoc or www.perldoc.com > >> > >> and The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy and Last Chance to see by > Douglas > >> Adams. > >> > >> I guess others would recomend The Lord of the rings too. > >> > >> Good night:-) > >> Wolf > > > >Since there was no mention what kind of perl books (beginner, etc.): > > > >I'd add: "Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway, I've also been > wanting > >to check out "Learning Perl Objects, References, & Modules" by > Randall > >Schwartz. "Advanced Perl Programming" by Sriram Srinivasan (getting > >slightly out of date; seems I heard of updated edition coming ???). > >"Effective Perl Programming" by Joseph Hall is not bad. "Writing Perl > > >Modules for CPAN" by Sam Tregar is pretty good if your going to write > > >modules for CPAN. "Extending & Embedding Perl" by Tim Jenness & Simon > > >Cozens is good if your going to get into Perl/XS. > > > >You'll definately want the Perl Cookbook mentioned above. It's the > Perl > >equivelant of the Effective C++ books. > > > >Regards, > >Randy. > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ><http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > > > > > > Harvey Kelly > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
