Seeking your recommendation

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

I humbly seek wisdom from the Monks....

A recent post listed <link removed> as a resource to learn more about Perl. Unfortunately this link does not 'display' many chapters...

Beyond PerlMonks.com

What resources / recommendations do you USE / Suggest :

to Learn it (beginners)
to Improve on it (experienced but growing)
what it Does well
what it Isn't so good at
when to Use it vs another language
find a Solution (when to use what, where)
find a Better solution (why reinvent the wheel?)
share it with others

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Re: Seeking your recommendation - Perl resources by Anonymous Monk on Dec 08, 2003 at 18:27 UTC
READ our Tutorials, where you can find, among other things, Where and how to start learning Perl As for the link you are referring to, it is publishing copyrighted material. Please remove it (See Online Perl books.)	[reply]
Re: Seeking your recommendation - Perl resources by simonm (Vicar) on Dec 08, 2003 at 18:26 UTC
I'd recommend the things I found helpful in my own growth: The O'Reilly books: Learning Perl, Programming Perl, Advanced Perl. A few other books: Effective Perl Programming, Object Oriented Perl, Writing Perl Modules For CPAN. Playing with lots of different CPAN modules and looking through their source code. The practical experience of trying to accomplish things with Perl. This site.	[reply]
Re: Re: Seeking your recommendation - Perl resources by Paulster2 (Priest) on Dec 08, 2003 at 21:48 UTC
As I am sure that many here would agree, I will put in my two cents worth (about 1EUC) and say that O'Reilly makes a good product, no matter what the language. I know this sounds like a commercial, but I have purchased quite a few of these books. I have been dissapointed in none of them. UPDATE: I put this here as to back up what simonm said in the previous Re: Seeking your recommendation - Perl resources. Paulster2	[reply]
Re: Seeking your recommendation - Perl resources by Theo (Priest) on Dec 08, 2003 at 19:46 UTC
The Tutorials section of the Monastery is a good, inexpensive place to start. For further information on a particular topic, use search or Super Search. -Theo- (so many nodes and so little time ... )	[reply]
Re: Seeking your recommendation - Perl resources by hmerrill (Friar) on Dec 08, 2003 at 22:30 UTC
An excellent book that hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread is the Perl Cookbook - organized by what you want to accomplish. This book is a must IMHO.	[reply]
Re: Re: Seeking your recommendation - Perl resources by hmerrill (Friar) on Dec 10, 2003 at 16:24 UTC
I just thought of another often overlooked resource - that is actually one of the best resources and it doesn't cost anything - the perldoc's. Perldocs is perl documentation that is included when perl gets installed on a machine. To start just do `perldoc perl` [download] at a command prompt. You'll see a listing of perldoc "sections" along with a short description of each section. From there if you wanted to read the 'Perl Introduction for Beginners', you would do `perldoc perlintro` [download] HTH.	[reply] [d/l] [select]