Re: How to get going with perl?

I also recently began learning Perl on my own, and have found that having a good book as Companion is really a good thing. That way you can work inside of a track, and you can get inspired from that and do your own things or expand on the examples in the book. You cannot learn Perl by reading about it, you have to code .. but if you are on your own a good book is highly valuable in my experience. "Learning Perl" and "Intermediate Perl", as well as "Perl Cookbook" are fine books.

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Re^2: How to get going with perl? by ivo_ac (Acolyte) on Mar 27, 2010 at 17:23 UTC
I very much agree to this post. I also started a few months ago with Learning Perl. It reads as a good book, has loth of humour and reading it is a pleasure. Now I have an interrest in GUIs and came across "Mastering Perl TK". Just read the book and try to make some small programs without using the book to copy stuff and you will get started in no time. If you ever get stuck (like i today) you can always ask the Monks for advice (be sure to use strict and use warnings so your code is not buggy thats the lesson i learned today to). Good luck ! Ivo.	[reply]

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Re^2: How to get going with perl?
by ivo_ac (Acolyte) on Mar 27, 2010 at 17:23 UTC

I very much agree to this post. I also started a few months ago with Learning Perl. It reads as a good book, has loth of humour and reading it is a pleasure. Now I have an interrest in GUIs and came across "Mastering Perl TK". Just read the book and try to make some small programs without using the book to copy stuff and you will get started in no time. If you ever get stuck (like i today) you can always ask the Monks for advice (be sure to use strict and use warnings so your code is not buggy thats the lesson i learned today to). Good luck ! Ivo.

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