This is a response to Louis Wu Also, as both of you were asking about what I have already read.

I am in the middle of reading Learning Perl, and it is a great read, not what I expected from a programming tome, I am coing off of reading Perl for Dummies (and yes, I do feel like a dummy for buying it...)

I am going to have a week free (my wife and kids are going to Puerto Rico, I elected to stay home and crack the books, does that make me an even bigger dummy?) and have decided that I will at least be able to understand the concepts that are obvious in Perl by that time.
I bought a number of books to get me started, Learning Perl, Core Perl little black book, Programming Perl,Begining Perl, Perl and CGI (whoops, almost as bad as the dummies book!) and a few others that I have yet to recieve.

I got myself a subscription to Active State and sprung for the Komodo IDE, and I even got a subscription to The Perl Journal. All in the space of a week and a half.

Now I have to start using these resources, I just wondered if instead of spending the $500.00 or so, if there was a simple guide,that held my hand and walked me through the initial learning curve.

I am getting back into programming after a 10 year hiatus (two kids, I am a stay at home Dad), the last programming language I learned (and I knew it inside and out) was a obscure language for a now defunt Bulletin Board System called PCBoard, the language was PPL.

. Thanks for the suggestions guys, I will follow each link, and see what i can squeeze from it, learning Perl is a goal I have to sort of get myself used to not doing the child rearing thing. It has to be easier <s>.

Keep the suggestion coming if you think of anything else, something has to click.

In reply to Re: Re: The Gates of Perl are not newbie friendly. by Hielo
in thread The Gates of Perl are not newbie friendly. by Hielo

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