in reply to newbie requests book recommendations: What Perl book to start with?

If you're on a Unix machine, read Learning Perl. If you're on Windows, read Learning Perl on Win32. Both are from O'Reilly Associates and are 5-star books. I purchased the first to teach my girlfriend how to program and she's never programmed before.

After that, get yourself a copy of Programming Perl, also by ORA. If you make this into a career, you will want that as your reference.

Oh - welcome aboard! :)

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Re: Re: newbie...
by davorg (Chancellor) on Aug 06, 2001 at 12:46 UTC

    I disagree. The second edition of "Learning Perl" (which was the one that also came with a Win32 edition) was not aimed at complete non-programmers. I hear that the 3rd edition addresses this, but I haven't read it yet. The 3rd edition also does away with the need for a separate Win32 version as it covers cross-platform information in more detail.

    In my opinion, the best book for non-programmers to learn Perl is Andrew Johnson's "Elements of Programming with Perl".

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