Suzanne — Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:11:00 +0000

I found Perl For Dummies 2nd Edition fairly thorough, with the O'Reilly Pocket Reference on the side.

Also...

http://stars.com/Authoring/Scripting/Tutorial/toc.html

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Training/PerlIntro/

http://www.irt.org (thorough tutorials and code)

As far as the actual learning curve, if you have any programming experience, even JavaScript, it is fairly minimal. The trick is to not move on until you ACTUALLY understand the chapter. I kept trying to leap ahead to serve my own needs, but eventually I wised up and started at the beginning again and did it right.

www.activestate.com has a perl for windows that is just great for testing if you don't have telnet capabilities and still want to learn.

Have fun!

Suzanne

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Justin S — Wed, 01 Mar 2000 02:36:00 +0000

Sorry, but not everyone is as smart as you Japhy

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japhy — Wed, 01 Mar 2000 02:32:00 +0000

Sigh. The first chapter of "Learning Perl" is entitled "An Overview of Perl". That's exactly what it is. Skip over it if you don't want to see some of the things Perl can do. Chapter 2 is where the real learning begins, and it is a simple (and proper) introduction to scalars. Very basic thing.

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Justin S — Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:28:00 +0000

I own the book Learning Perl (2nd Edition), and when I first read it I found it very confusing. I got to about the 2nd chapter. So I got a CGI book instead, read that, and than Perl was much easier. But maybe it's just me...

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Y-2-Casey — Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:46:00 +0000

Hello-
I'm hardly the brightest person the Internet, and I learned it (much to my surprise) in just a few weeks.

Good Luck!

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Orpheus — Thu, 17 Feb 2000 05:37:00 +0000

Perl in my opinion was very easy to learn. But your talking to a guy who eats C for breakfast and dreams about UNIX shell scripts.

But the book Learning Perl 2nd Edition. It will teach you everything.