in reply to Help from the very start.

What is the canonical O'Reilly book, I'd like to ask other monks, for this person.

I started with Learning Perl (actually I didn't but I'm blanking that Dummies book from my memory!), but that was because I knew nothing about programming.

For someone who's a "recent computer science grad" (that does mean they know something about programming, right?) what's the suggested entry point?


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