Begining Perl
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - Topic(s) Perl Technology
I've never been terribly thrilled with either of the standard introductions to perl the lama book and the camel book especially for beginning programmers. I found them difficult, and I was far from a novice programmer when I first encountered perl. So when someone asked me for a recommendation recently I decided to look around a bit. I was delighted to discover the excellent "Beginning Perl" by Simon Cozens and Peter Wainwright (Wrox Press Inc. May 25, 2000). It's available online at learn.perl.org.
"Beginning Perl" is straight forward, simple and clear. Aimed at beginning programmers it covers basic programming topics but it moves through them quite briskly. If you want to learn perl it's worth your time even if you're an experienced programmer. I learned some things and I've been writing perl for quite a few years now. The section on object oriented perl is the best introduction to that subject I've read anywhere.
Highly recomended.
