Looking for easiest book to learn Perl from (was: Doing Better.)

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Re: Doing Better. by Marza (Vicar) on Sep 10, 2002 at 01:14 UTC
People will tell you to look at Merlyns book. Learning Perl. It's good but I think it is more geared to people who have a grasp of programming. I would suggest taking a look at Simon Cozens book Beginning Perl I have suggested it to complete beginners and they said they liked it. There is a dummies book but I know nothing about it. Take a look at our tutorials section too. It has some cool stuff! Best advice though is to play. Think of something and just do it!	[reply]
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Re: Looking for easiest book to learn Perl from (was: Doing Better.) by davorg (Chancellor) on Sep 10, 2002 at 17:12 UTC
If you have no previous programming experience then I recommend you look at Elements of Programming with Perl and Perl for Web Site Management. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re: Looking for easiest book to learn Perl from (was: Doing Better.) by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 10, 2002 at 15:34 UTC
Get the Perl CD Bookset CD BOOK You will eventually want to search for code snippets,look up commands, and cut-n-paste examples. You get 6 books in 1, it's on a lightweight cd to take with you and you can search the entire cd with an included search engine.	[reply]