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Re: Learning Perl?

by Steve_p (Priest)
on Sep 06, 2003 at 02:00 UTC ( [id://289402]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Learning Perl?

From my experience, the best programmers are almost completely self-taught, so welcome to a difficult, but highly rewarding path. Overall, the best way to learn how to program is to program. I think the choice of Learning Perl is a good one for learning Perl, but, no offence to Merlyn, its not one of the best for learning to program. Of course, I don't believe that was its purpose.

This topic has come up a few times, so rather than repeat myself, check out what I have to say there. I would add one new book to that list. After going through How to Design Programms (it's free online), I'd suggest going through a newer book called Understanding Unix/Linux Programming: A Guide to Theory and Practice. All I could say about this book when reading it was, "Wow!" I learned a lot from it and truly wish I had it when I was much younger.

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•Re: Re: Learning Perl?
by merlyn (Sage) on Sep 06, 2003 at 05:40 UTC
    ... Learning Perl is a good one for learning Perl, but, no offence to Merlyn, its not one of the best for learning to program
    That's completely correct. I didn't write Learning Perl to learn to program, although people have used it for that. I wrote it for programmers to learn to program in Perl. If you don't know what an array or a subroutine is, you probably will get lost from time to time in the Llama.

    I learned to program when I was 8. That's too long ago for me to remember what I was doing to learn, so I really can't write about it or teach it. All I can do is write about what I have recently learned, like Perl.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
    Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.

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