Introductory books about Perl and mod

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Re: Newbie by woolfy (Chaplain) on Oct 17, 2003 at 16:16 UTC
Liz already pointed you out to my "Where and how" node. A lot of good tutorials can be found here at Perl Monks. Before you, several people have asked for the best place or the best way to start learning Perl and others have answered: here, here, here and here. With regards to mod_perl, you'd best go to the source, which is http://perl.apache.org. Or use (one of) these books: Practical Mod_perl by Stas Bekman, Eric Cholet ( Chapter 6: Coding with mod_perl in Mind can be read online). mod_perl Developer's Cookbook by Geoffrey Young, Paul Lindner, Randy Kobes ( 3 introductions and chapters 1, 3, 4, 7, 13, 16, Appendix B can be read online). A bit of search in the Monks or a Google search sweep lists dozens of interesting places. Take your pick. Have fun!	[reply]
Re: Newbie by liz (Monsignor) on Oct 17, 2003 at 15:42 UTC
Check out Where and how to start learning Perl. It will tell you more than you will want to know. ;-) Liz	[reply]
Re: Introductory books about Perl and mod_perl by davido (Cardinal) on Oct 17, 2003 at 16:58 UTC
If you're a book fiend like me, you can start out with Learning Perl, from O'Reilly. It is endearingly known as the Llama book. Once you've digested that, CGI Programming with Perl, also from O'Reilly, is a pretty good introduction to CGI, and devotes a chapter to mod_perl. (This one is known as the Mouse book. Be sure to get the 2nd edition. The first is quite different and doesn't discuss mod_perl at all. With those introductory books out of the way, no home should be without the Camel book (Programming Perl from O'Reilly. And you can dive into mod_perl in greater depth with mod_perl, also from O'Reilly. The latter is the only book out of the four mentioned that I don't have. But as one who does have the Camel book, the Llama book, the Owls book (Mastering Regular Expressions), the Mouse book (1st and 2nd ed.), the Ram book (Perl Cookbook), the Panther book (Advanced Perl Programming), the Koala book (HTML), the Groundhog book (Perl for System Administration), and the Rhino book (Javascript), I can say that for the most part, O'Reilly & Assoc. books are top quality. The recommendations for online learning resources are also very much on track. You can learn an awful lot just by reading online tutorials, Apache's mod_perl documentation, and the Perl POD pages. I find that a four-pronged approach works best for me: 1. The perldocs. 2. The books. 3. The web (including Perlmonks). 4. Experimentation and practice. Good luck, and enjoy. Dave "If I had my life to do over again, I'd be a plumber." -- Albert Einstein	[reply]