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Summary: good reference and teaching manual
Comment: this book is a good introductory book into perl but cannot serve as the end all be all book for your learning purposes...it is highly suggested that you buy programming perl along with it to use as your reference manual as you go along, because if you learn anything about perl and ever actually use it then you will be buying this book eventually anyways.
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Summary: This book shows small code samples making Learning Perl easy
Comment: By utilizing this great resource, you can learn perl within a few days. Rather than lengthy examples, Learning Perl shows small tid bits of code and explains their meaning. This book is made simple and the novice reader will find this book an invaluable resource.
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Summary: The easiest way to learn Perl
Comment: This is a very well written and organized Perl book. By reading a first few pages you cannot tell the value of this book. As you read along, the value of this book shines. The explanation is easy and clear, the beginner Perl programmers can understand it without that much efforts. This should be the first book for the programmers who want to learn to program in Perl.
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Summary: an excellent approach to a technical subject
Comment: when i picked up this book i didn't know any "real" programming languages - heck, i didn't even know how to write a shell script! in two months this book gave me the knowledge to create applications and report generators for my employer, quickly earning me a promotion.
it's real easy to gain practical knowledge from this introduction to perl due to the effective layout. some of the subjects aren't covered in very much detail, but the reader is always given sources for additional (free) information.
reading some of the silly commentaries posted here; if you cannot grasp what this book hands you, perhaps you should make the move to customer support or marketing and leave programming to the cognitive specimens.
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Summary: Great tutorial approach, examples and exercises
Comment: This book was assigned for a college perl course and I found it wonderful. Its tutorial approach was very effective to learning the language quickly. It was also very funny which also helped. There are exercises at the end of every section with answers in the back, so you can check yourself to see if you're really learning.
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