in reply to Newbie in Perl World

There are many ways to master a programming language, but they all include one thing: write your own programms in that language.

You can gather important knowledge by reading books, online tutorials, the Monestery and other boards. But nothing will be as valuable as really doing it.

So if you don't have a project already, find one. Work on project that you really want or need.

And if you've got quetions, read the docs. If you don't understand the docs, or you think it's not covered there, ask here.

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Re^2: Newbie in Perl World
by sir_com (Acolyte) on Mar 03, 2008 at 09:47 UTC
    Thanks..... Thanks a lot to you all. For all of your Support and motivation. That's all was needed... Just if any of you could let me know....which book shall I go for (author and all)....as sometimes reading from books gives more pleasure. sir_com
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      Did you look at the link I gave you to http://learn.perl.org/? It has a section titled 'Books for beginners'. I would suggest starting with 'Learning Perl'. You can also check out the Reviews section of this site.

      Thanks

      Martin
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      If you already own a copy of Learning Perl and Programming Perl (both O'reilly books), then I suggest you pick up a hardcopy of Mastering Algorithms (also an O'reilly) to dig more deeper into Perl and become more specific in approaching a problem with challenges.


      Es gibt mehr im Leben als Bücher, weißt du. Aber nicht viel mehr. - (Die Smiths)"
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