I agree with the post that says different people learn differently. I started with several books & had to put a few on the shelf that were a bit too advanced. I've been through the Camel, Llama, Gecko, some sort of dog, an owl and a few animals I can remember.
I also read Damian Conways Best Practices and the Perl Cookbook, and while I think they are both very good, I felt I was being told not to use what I'd learned earlier. This was a bit confusing.

After about 3 weeks of trial and error with a small utility program, I found this site an what a difference the monks made.

Doing is also my best way of learning. While going through the "zoo" of books, I always had my perl up and running. This alowed me to try things immediately, fail miserably, then try again.

I use ActiveState Perl on a WinXP box & they have a lot of perl docs too. Hope this was helpful. I'm relatively new to perl & I love it already.

In reply to Re: The Road to Enlightenment? by Aim9b
in thread The Road to Enlightenment? by DigitalKitty

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