Books on Perl

[Waver]

Please make the following assumptions:

1) I am a fairly smart guy.
2) I have never written one line of script and know nothing about the terms, concepts or even fundamentals of programming.
3) I need to learn Perl due to my job.

Please suggest some appropriate books.

Thank You!

waver

[klamath]

Learning Perl, published by O'Reilly.

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[YaRness]

i'd search this forum. there's been several threads on books, on programming in general and various languages.

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[kel]

Programming Perl, 3rd Edition - Oreilly

[TheLinuxDuck]

Waver:

When I learned perl, I bought 'Learning Perl' (as klamath suggested to you), and found it to be an awesome learning book.. it starts off giving you a fairly complex (for a new perlite) script, showing you some of the things perl can do, and then it eases you through learning about the language. It's a great book for getting to know perl.

Also, I suggest coming here for examples and aide as well, as I learned part of my perl stuff from here (mostly from takshaka who doesn't frequent here hardly anymore, unforunately).

And, once you get a pretty good understanding of perl, buy 'Programming Perl, 3rd edition' (as suggested by kel). It is an invaluable reference/resource guide.

It gives you lots of qool data and info, but I don't think it will do you much good until you're familiar with perl, at least enough to write your own scripts from memory.

Anyhow, these are the books I own and use (I actually don't use 'learning perl' anymore, as I loaned it to a friend, and 'Programming Perl' has everything I need now) and suggest to you.

If you'd like some getting started examples and input, I (as well as others here) would be glad to give you aide and support.

What platform will you be perling on? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

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[Waver]

Ok, now please make the same assumptions but the programming will be in bourne shell, C shell and then I need to learn the C programming language.

Don't worry, I have plenty of time, I'm looking at the "Big Picture".

All platforms will be Unix or Linux.

Waver

[This message has been edited by Waver (edited 19 January 2001).]