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Title: Beginning Perl by Simon Cozens, Peter Wainwright ISBN: 1-86100-314-5 Publisher: Wrox Press Pub. Date: 25 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.84 (19 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: I'm a Perl Beginner / Intermediate - Pretty Good Book
Comment: Where I coming from:
I learned programming? almost 15 years ago with the BASIC Programming Language. About a year ago I learned HTML then CGI using PERL of course. I bought this book as step towards learning PERL better. I read about 80% of the book in detail.
My feelings about Learning Programming:
Programming even in PERL is a huge undertaking. Books make it seem simple to learn PERL or other languages esp the learn JAVA in 24 hrs etc. After studying PERL for a year I re-read sections in the book and now realize how simplistic it is compared to more advanced coding like using modules and OOP etc.
You won't go wrong with this book it is much more suited to a newbie than O'Reily Programming Perl that people buy thinking they can learn perl from it.
Summary:
All in all the author does a decent job of teaching the beginner. My only complain is that in some spots the author makes a huge leap without explaining how to get there step by step. This can cause you to waste a lot of time trying to figure some stuff out on your own.
To learn from this or any other book you will have to spend a LOT of time coding!!!
good luck.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good book.
Comment: I have gone through several Perl tutorials in the past, and I have to admit that this is the best one I've seen, especially if you already know how to program. I came from a C++ world, so it was relatively easy to pickup. The syntax was easy to pick up and also concepts such as hashes and lists. The tone Simon uses is very social, so it keeps you awake and interested. I also enjoyed the large amount of examples.
I think, without a doubt, the first half of the book was good - the basics (syntax, logic, scalars, arrays, hashes, basic functions, and files). The second half may seem a little weaker to many (OOP, Network Programming, CGI and databases)- but that's just because it's way too much for the book to handle. This just encourages you to continue to learn on your own. I'm glad he did mention it though. He provides code and gives you the very basic of these.
Overall this is a very good book. I agree with many that it has some errors throughout the book, but not too many (you can check the Wrox website for errata). No book is perfect. This book, however, is better than a lot of other tutorials out there that just seem to copy and paste the boring Perl documentation. If you're a beginner to Perl and have a programming background, I recommend it. If you're a beginner to programming, you will struggle a little, but that's just because it's your first programming language.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book for learning Perl
Comment: This is the best beginner's book for Perl I have touched so far. In comparison to Learning Perl and Programming Perl, Simon Cozens goes step by step and concept by concept with enough in-depth examples. By reading the book, I somehow also got encouraged to modify the examples by myself and see what happens when we change certain lines of code. Indeed "There is more than one way to do it!"
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Title: Learning Perl, Third Edition by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix ISBN: 0596001320 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Professional Perl Programming by Peter Wainwright, Aldo Calpini, Arthur Corliss, Juan Julian Merelo Guervos, Chris Nandor, Aalhad Saraf, Shelley Powers, Arthur Corliss, Simon Cozens, JJ Merelo-Guervos ISBN: 1861004494 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Programming Perl (3rd Edition) by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant ISBN: 0596000278 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Perl Cookbook, Second Edition by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington ISBN: 0596003137 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Professional Perl Development by Randal Lee Kobes, Peter Wainwright, Shishir Gundavaram, Peter Wainwright, Gavin Brown, Arthur Corliss, Joshua Ellis, Pancrazio De Mauro, Joshua Ellis, Mark Wilcox ISBN: 1861004389 Publisher: Wrox Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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