Perl Books

[SERIER]

What are some of the best books for newbies to perl?

[Parag Kalra]

Learning Perl by Randal and Group - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001322

Must must read book for any beginner.

Cheers,
Parag

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:54 AM, SERIER <stephenm....@gmail.com> wrote:
> What are some of the best books for newbies to perl?
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[Francesco Di Lorenzo]

I'm a beginner and I'm currently reading Learning Perl by O'Really, great book!

Francesco

On 26/dic/2010, at 19:54, SERIER <stephenm....@gmail.com> wrote:

> What are some of the best books for newbies to perl?
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[Erez Schatz]

> On 26/dic/2010, at 19:54, SERIER <stephenm....@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> What are some of the best books for newbies to perl?

For a programming beginner in general, Learning Perl
(http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106/ by Randal Schwartz, Tom
Phoenix, and Brian D. Foy, aka the Llama book) is an excellent book. For
someone who wants to get stuff done in Perl, and fast, The Perl Cookbook
(http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/ by Tom Christiansen and Nat
Torkington, aka the Ram book) is still an excellent guide.

For a programmer who wants to learn Perl as a language and as a
platform, I find the new Modern Perl book
(http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html by chromatic,
aka... the butterfly book?) to be a very good guide, one that is walking
in the steps of the venerable (albeit somewhat dated) Programming Perl
(http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271/ by Larry Wall, Tom
Christiansen, Randal Schwartz and Jon Orwant, aka the camel book)

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[Shlomi Fish]

On Sunday 26 Dec 2010 20:54:58 SERIER wrote:
> What are some of the best books for newbies to perl?

In addition to what other people said, you can find some other reocmmendations
here:

* http://perl-begin.org/books/

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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[Francisco Valladolid]

Another link.

http://learn.perl.org contain online books.

Personally I can recommended:

1 Learning Perl, Randal Schwartz, O'Reilly
2 Beginning Perl, Jamess Lee, Apress

First, search a good beginners tutorials in internet, test the examples,
watch as it work, and rewrite the samples.

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[Andrew Migliazzo]

I am a UNIX system administrator and I want to use Perl because it's
standard since Solaris 8. Honestly I do not care much about MS Windows
programing or CGIs, I am looking for tasks automation or sockets
management.

Which book would you recommend to me?

Thanks
Andres

[Shawn H Corey]

Perl for System Administration, David N. Blank-Edelman, O'Reilly &
Associates, Inc. ISBN 1-56592-609-9

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[Brian Fraser]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Shawn H Corey <shawn...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Perl for System Administration, David N. Blank-Edelman, O'Reilly &
> Associates, Inc. ISBN 1-56592-609-9
>

> Since we are at it, would the first edition be preferable to the second
(renamed Automating System Administration with Perl)[0]? Or is this a
"changed so much they are pretty different books: Read both!" situation, ala
Advanced Perl Programming?

Brian.

[0] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396

[jeff pang]

2010/12/29 Andrew Migliazzo <list...@gmail.com>:

> I am a UNIX system administrator and I want to use Perl because it's
> standard since Solaris 8. Honestly I do not care much about MS Windows
> programing or CGIs, I am looking for tasks automation or sockets
> management.
>

* Automating System Administration with Perl
* Network Programming with Perl -- I very like this book, written by
Lincoln D. Stein

[Shlomi Fish]

On Tuesday 28 Dec 2010 19:27:27 Francisco Valladolid wrote:
> Another link.
>
> http://learn.perl.org contain online books.
>

True, and I link to the most relevant ones from perl-begin.org. learn.perl.org
is very short of other useful content though.

> Personally I can recommended:
>
> 1 Learning Perl, Randal Schwartz, O'Reilly
> 2 Beginning Perl, Jamess Lee, Apress

These should be fine books.

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> First, search a good beginners tutorials in internet, test the examples,
> watch as it work, and rewrite the samples.
>

Please don't recommend people to do a web search for Perl tutorials as most of
the tutorials one can find on the web are pretty bad (including the first hit
for a Google search for "perl tutorial".). The original poster specifically
asked for recommendations for Perl *books* and we've referred them to such. If
they are interested in tutorials, they can do better by visiting this page:

http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/

I don't understand your suggestion to "test the examples, watch as it works,
and rewrite the samples". What do you mean by that?

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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