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oneiron (2615)
Thursday October 03, 2002
03:21 AM
Training Perl Beginners
I noticed a nice new Perl 5.8.0
perlintro.
I am trying to train and inspire some absolute Perl beginners and
started by pointing them at the URL above (while warning them *not*
to visit the intro author's Kink album at
infotrope.net
Oh, and I just subscribed to perl-trainers@perl.org. Any advice on how to train Perl beginners welcome.
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Advice on training (Score:2)
Re:Advice on training (Score:1)
I told them the best first book on Perl is "Learning Perl", but I couldn't remember the author's name. ;) I might add that
one of them piped up (without any provocation) and said:
"Learning Perl is a great book". As for best second books on Perl,
I recommended the shiny ball book and the camel. And TheDamian's
OO Perl as the best third book. Actually, davorg's "Data Munging
with Perl" looks like a nice second book too, but I haven't read it.
Being new to Perl training, I will also poke around the Stonehenge
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