in reply to References: For Newbies
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.
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