On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Gladstone Daniel - dglads wrote:
I am trying to learn Perl, I was told to go out and get the Camel=3D20 Book - "Programming Perl" I got the book today and I was wondering if this is the best way to=3D20 Learn Pearl. Can anyone give me suggestions on how best to proceed through the book I got - Third Edition
While it is a great book, and is widely considered to be the canonical reference manual for the language, it's also an intimidating piece of work, with so much detail on the trees that it can be hard to keep track of the forest, to mangle a phrase. Learning about Perl from that book might be a little like, I don't know, learning about the English language by reading a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary; it's a great resource, yes, but it probably has more value for people that are already at a basic level of understanding of the material.
The companion book _Learning Perl_ might be a bit more approachable, as might _Perl Cookbook_, which has canned recipies for approaching hundreds of different common programming tasks that can be assembled together to do many of the things one would want to accomplish in Perl.
The other approach is to just pick what you want your first project to be and start working on it, using the book you already have to help you get into the material. The best way to learn -- regardless of the support material (books, websites, friends, etc) -- is by doing, so you might as well get started that way.
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