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<node id="753955" title="Re: Where and how to start learning Perl" created="2009-03-29 02:15:33" updated="2009-03-29 02:15:33">
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&lt;p&gt;Because it is much easier to learn good habits from the beginning than to try to change bad ones later, a few other (somewhat advanced) resources deserve mention:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735/|Perl Best Practices]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[mod://Perl::Tidy]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[mod://Perl::Critic]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And [http://norvig.com/21-days.html|Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years] by Peter Norvig gives guidance which might help to set reasonable expectations for learning programming.&lt;/p&gt;</field>
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