[PLUG] perl for dummies

[mikeraz at patch.com]

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 05:57:51PM -0700, Dave Poirier typed:
> Just kinda feeling overwhelmed with Perl at this point and wondering if
> anyone would care to share, sites or books they found helpful.  Any
> suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks much in advance.Dave

The Llama book - Learning Perl - commit a weekend to doing the whole book.  
Do every single exercise.  EVERY single one.  That was the foundation that
my Perl is built on.  

Check the PLUG archives for Paul Heinlein scripts.  Unlike what you'll find 
on CPAN they are small enough for you to grok the entire thing and learn from it.

Compare Matt's scripts (suggested elsewhere) with NMS (Not Matt's Scripts) both
sets have good levels of comments and the contrast of doing the same task as
implemented by two different programmers is more helpful than figuring out
what one person did.  

Magazine columns - because they tend to be very focused and explain the how of 
what they do.  Randal Schwartz posted a link to his stuff.

Port anything you have from a different language.  DOS batch files, Paul 
Heinlein's sh scripts, the AWK thing you wrote a year ago.  Porting something
you've done in a different language is very instructive and narrows the problem
set to just figuring out how to implement a solution in the new language.

http://www.perlmonks.org


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