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Re^2: Best Perl Books of All Timeby bowei_99 (Friar) |
on Apr 18, 2006 at 06:23 UTC ( [id://544003]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I wouldn't recommend it to a beginner.... Really? You wouldn't recommend it to a beginner? I might, depending on the circumstances. I think it boils down to
My first job coding in perl was a matter of picking apart code and understanding it; I had to do that before I could even think about refactoring, rewriting as modules, etc. I was pretty much just thrown into it, and expected to pick it up and troubleshoot things quickly. In this case, I found Perl in a Nutshell a godsend, as I could get quick answers to questions like, "What does the =~ do?" or "How do I assign values to a hash?". Oh, and the Perl Cookbook was nice, too, for that. Since I also learn better by examples, I found these very useful. As my interest in Perl grew and I had more time to think and learn about *why* things were the way they were, and I also realized the code I was working with was pretty monolithic, with little or no use of modules, I found the Camel to be more useful. PBP wasn't around for me then, but I think it'd be somewhere in between - it's a good balance of examples and explaining of *why*.
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