Re: Re: Re: The Gates of Perl are not newbie friendly.

[Popcorn Dave]

A friend of mine, during an employment hiatus of his own doing, worked through a copy of Perl in 21 Days. He had a good programming background in other languages to start, but said that was a good book for him. Your mileage may vary.

That said, as others have said, there are wonderful tutorials here and wonderful people here who have assisted many, including me, in times of "bang head here over problem".

One book I can heartily recommend is Coriolis's Perl Black Book. Great reference for when you can't remember that niggling little syntax detail.

As far as comparing child rearing and Perl, I can tell you that Perl is easier than getting a cat to do what you say. :)

Good luck!

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.

[Hielo]

I will go out and grab a copy of "Perl in 21 Days", one thing I can not have enough of is more books. <s>

I have on order the Perl Black Book, I should see it in a day or two. Still getting through Learning Perl, I don't know if it is the first book a rank amateur ought to start with, it jumps into scalars and hases without much warning. A few chapters with "This is print", over and over, then a few more with "This is Print with a control character" is what I am looking for <s>.

. Thanks for the recommendations!

[Anonymous Monk]

worked through a copy of Perl in 21 Days.

I'm not sure what you're referring to here. Is it the language specification, the source code, or a book (Programming Perl/Learning Perl)? If it's Learning Perl that's only about 300 pages and can be read on a weekend, if it's Programming Perl, why would someone read it straight through? (I did, it wasn't worth it, better off as a reference book).

[bart]

It's a book with the title "(Teach Yourself) Perl in 21 Days". See here and here.