Hello all, Yeah that does make sense, but my experience (and I'm only speaking for myself here) is that learning about basics like scalar variables and arrays etc. first is a little daunting. With the Bioinfo. book I was writing programs (well, doing the exercises) straight away. Kinda like when I learnt French (pretentious? Moi?), I was speaking phrases and communicating before worrying about grammer - the grammer comes naturally the more you get into the language.
But I take your point and some people (most?) would find your suggestion helpful. Harvey ------------------- >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> >> >> > > > 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>
