References: For Newbies

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Re: References: For Newbies by toolic (Bishop) on Oct 04, 2011 at 19:25 UTC
perlreftut References quick reference perlref perldsc	[reply]
Re^2: References: For Newbies (Thank You) by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Oct 04, 2011 at 19:32 UTC
Thanks a lot everyone. Great links. This will really give me a head start. I've been getting into some more advanced Perl and I realized that if I want to do what I want to do, then I can't keep pushing off learning this. --perl.j	[reply]
Re: References: For Newbies by roboticus (Chancellor) on Oct 04, 2011 at 19:25 UTC
perl.j: I'd suggest starting with: `perldoc perldata` `perldoc perlreftut` `perldoc perldsc` `perldoc perlref` ...roboticus When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: References: For Newbies by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Oct 04, 2011 at 19:27 UTC
perl.j, perlref perlreftut intro to references References quick reference Arrays and hashes only with references Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re: References: For Newbies by metaperl (Curate) on Oct 04, 2011 at 19:54 UTC
I would read Chapter 7 of Simon Cozen's book The mantra of every experienced web application developer is the same: thou shalt separate business logic from display. Ironically, almost all template engines allow violation of this separation principle, which is the very impetus for HTML template engine development. -- Terence Parr, "Enforcing Strict Model View Separation in Template Engines"	[reply]
Re: References: For Newbies by Lotus1 (Vicar) on Oct 04, 2011 at 19:58 UTC
The tutorial you posted about how to learn Perl has some links about references. Begin Your Skyscraper.	[reply]
Re^2: References: For Newbies by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Oct 04, 2011 at 20:01 UTC
Yes I know. I just wanted to see if there was anything else and so far there is. --perl.j	[reply]
Re: References: For Newbies by mecrazycoder (Sexton) on Oct 04, 2011 at 20:10 UTC
I started learning Perl from the this link and read couple of the chapters from the book Perl in Nutshell. After that I took an small project and started coding in Perl. I learned a quite a lot during that project. So best way is just learn the basics and start coding it. My Download manager(esp for student) in Perl. http://tiny.cc/ntdfg. Try it and provide your valuable feedback.	[reply]
Re: References: For Newbies by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Oct 04, 2011 at 22:09 UTC
Here is an informal but simple way of thinking about it: “A reference is a thing (that is to say, a value that you can assign to a variable, etc.) that refers to something else.” You see, there are plenty of cases where we would like for a piece of data to be in two places at the same time. Maybe you’d like to send “a massively complicated data structure” from here to there without copying it. A reference can refer to anything. Dress it up or dress it down ... it is a very simple concept that really is that simple. Start from there.
Re: References: For Newbies by Anonymous Monk on Oct 05, 2011 at 00:33 UTC
What do I need to know to start learning references? One thing, and there is a Tutorial for it: How to RTFM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_%28computer_science%29	[reply]
Re: References: For Newbies by mecrazycoder (Sexton) on Oct 04, 2011 at 20:10 UTC
I started learning about Perl reference from the this link and read couple of the chapters from the book Learning Perl. Both helped me a lot My Download manager(esp for student) in Perl. http://tiny.cc/ntdfg. Try it and provide your valuable feedback.	[reply]
Re^2: References: For Newbies by pvaldes (Chaplain) on Oct 04, 2011 at 23:18 UTC
Learning perl is a great stuff, but don't cover references	[reply]