bio170 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Perl Geeks, I want to learn perl i am storage admin guy and i am keen in learning this language. to be honest when i was doing my engineering graduation i study perl language for over a year i was doing quite well in this to be honest i was one of the topper in perl paper during my study days ha ha.... now everything erased from my mind hope i can pick them up fast please help me to guide to start from basic to complex. Thanks siddartha

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Re: Want to learn PERL
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2014 at 04:03 UTC
Re: Want to learn PERL
by Discipulus (Canon) on Mar 21, 2014 at 07:48 UTC
    hello,
    my preferred first steps aiming to climb that learning curve is always the cookbook approach.

    Perl Cookbook is a little outdated but still valid, shows you many many things you can do with Perl and explains very well what's going on.

    Then, considering we are incredibly in 2014, be sure to read Modern Perl by chromatic a free and invaluable book covering all major subjects and all shadows of this wonderful language.

    Do not understimate what Anonymous Monk said: if you have a goal things are gonna be better..

    HtH
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Re: Want to learn PERL
by davido (Cardinal) on Mar 21, 2014 at 04:05 UTC

    Welcome.

    Now how is it that we may be of assistance?

    I recommend getting familiar with Perl's documentation, starting with perlintro. The book Learning Perl is also a good resource, followed by Intermediate Perl. Practice. Research when you find something you need a better understanding of, and when all else fails, ask here for additional guidance.


    Dave

Re: Want to learn PERL
by kcott (Archbishop) on Mar 21, 2014 at 06:20 UTC

    G'day bio170,

    Welcome to the monastery.

    I recommend you bookmark, and familiarise yourself with, http://perldoc.perl.org/perl.html.

    Here you'll find the documentation for the core Perl distribution (syntax, functions, modules, etc.) as well as other resources such as tutorials, FAQs, and so on.

    Modules not distributed with Perl can typically be found on CPAN; the most useful link, that you'll probably need, is for the search function: http://search.cpan.org/.

    -- Ken

Re: Want to learn PERL
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2014 at 06:58 UTC
    I recommend having something to code first, then code in Perl.