Your first Perl Book

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Learning Perl (re: Your first Perl Book) by Anonymous Monk on Dec 29, 1999 at 07:44 UTC
Learning Perl was the beginning of the tawdry love affair for me. Of course, it's designed with the C Programmer in mind? Does anybody have any other's they'd recommend? Especially for a first-language Perl user...	[reply]
RE: Learning Perl (re: Your first Perl Book) by Shotgun Bob (Beadle) on Jul 05, 2000 at 10:49 UTC
This isn't a book, but it's just as good and it gave me my start in perl programming. goto: Perl Tutorial: Start	[reply]
RE: Learning Perl (re: Your first Perl Book) by yiango (Novice) on Dec 29, 1999 at 17:53 UTC
Get this: Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days	[reply]
RE: Your first Perl Book by LeGo (Chaplain) on Jun 26, 2000 at 19:36 UTC
This below link was my first experience in perl. I really liked it and feel that it was a great start. It is missing some chapters though. Picking Up Perl I am now reading Learning Perl 2nd edition. It is okay so far. I would recomend skipping the first chapter though. If you read it and have never done anything with perl you might have a few headaches. LeGo	[reply]
RE: Your first Perl Book by yiango (Novice) on Dec 29, 1999 at 02:01 UTC
I used "Teach yourself perl5 in 21 days" :) Where is the "other" option?	[reply]
RE: RE: Your first Perl Book by Kasei (Novice) on Dec 29, 1999 at 06:11 UTC
I picked learning perl, but in all seriousness it was hardcopy of the man page before the man pages got split up into something managable. the thing must have weighed a ton, but it was more informative than any book ;)	[reply]
RE: Your first Perl Book by Anonymous Monk on Dec 30, 1999 at 08:45 UTC
You spelt it wrong, on my first edtion copy it is Programming perl' (little p). Oh oh I think I just gave away my age. Ohhhh you must mean the the 'Blue Camel'. The 'Pink Camel' always be my first and best. BTW, underneath a key piece of duct tape is Larry and Randal autographs. :P --- mitd	[reply]
RE: RE: Your first Perl Book by vroom (His Eminence) on Dec 30, 1999 at 09:01 UTC
`if($firstperlbook=~/^Programming Perl/i){ $vote="Programming Perl"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
RE: Your first Perl Book by Anonymous Monk on Dec 30, 1999 at 03:54 UTC
My first PERL book was: "PERL5 by Example" aka PERLbe by David Medinets and distributed by QUE... It totally rocked. I own "PERL In a Nutshell" but PERLbe was the first and in my opinion the best book I read on PERL. I read PERLbe for the first time 4 years ago when I was just a wee freshman in college and had yet to learn to code, PERLbe helped me both learn to code and learn PERL.	[reply]
RE: Your first Perl Book by Anonymous Monk on Dec 30, 1999 at 09:02 UTC
I think Programming Perl was the best. I dunno why. I went back and read Learning Perl, and while it looks like a great book Programming Perl moved at a bit of a faster pace and covered more material. Uh oh, my cat is going insane so I gotta stop writing now.	[reply]
Re: Your first Perl Book by targetsmart (Curate) on May 21, 2008 at 15:19 UTC
Perl in a Nutshell is my choice, because I started revising my perl knowledge from that book, I found it as Okay.	[reply]
Re: Your first Perl Book by jakeease (Friar) on Sep 18, 2010 at 01:49 UTC
My first 'book' was the man pages on devvax.jpl.nasa.gov. I didn't get the Pink Camel until 1992.	[reply]


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