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Summary: One word: EXCELLENT
Comment: A very, very good book for beginners. Extremely helpful, detailed explanations of what's going on and more. It says UNIX on the cover but I am using a Windows NT platform and almost everything works as is. If you want to learn Perl, start here.
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Summary: Great book!
Comment: This book is a great read to get you started in the fun world of perl programming. The authors make the book quite enjoyable to read and I found myself on many occasions not wanting to put the book down.I am quite looking forward to start reading Programming Perl, also by O'reilly.
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Summary: Before you dive into the details, get the basics here
Comment: This book is a great book for beginners who wish to learn Perl. Some books are written specifically for CGI/Web programming and teach just enough Perl to get you going . . . but there is much more to the Perl language than just making CGI programs. This book gets you started with the basics without getting you bogged down with the details. CGI is covered, a little bit. Once you've mastered the material in this book, you can move onto the Camel Book (by Wall). This book is very readable and gets you started writing code right away.
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Summary: a must have for beginner
Comment: I look for a beginning perl book that teaches me Perl in a programmer to programmer tone, assuming I already have basic programming skills. After many books, finally, I got learning perl which helps me learn as well as appreciate Perl as a programming language.
I always think that perl is only useful as a CGI scripting language. But it actually is a very good language to work with UNIX and to do text formatting. This book presents different topics of Perl, including Regular Expressions, Filehandles, Formats, Directory Access, Database Access, CGI. I particularly love the regular expression chapter, it's concise and simple. though you may find there are not enough details on some topics e.g. CGI, please remember this book is only 302 pages for beginners. If you want more specific details on a particular topics. you should go to another book. The examples in the book are not just naive and useless in the real programming world, but they are really useful and handy for you to cut and paste to your perl projects.
One of the best features of the book is the exercises after each chapter. Those questions are really testing what you have learn in each chapters. From the questions, you will know whether you already master the chapter or not. the answers provided are not just answers, the authors explain the them too!
As a beginner's book, "Learning Perl" does a good job to teach readers to write useful perl programs and scripts.
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Summary: good for both beginners and experienced programmers
Comment: This book gave me a very good introduction to Perl. The book was, for the most part, very easy to read and understand.Skip chapter 1 if you aren't already a pretty decent hacker. It will simply confuse you. I also wish they had yanked the chapters on databases out and beefed up the CGI section instead. Maybe even add something on Perl Sockets.
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