Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours
February 28th, 2010 by CGI & PHP.com
Product Description
Learn Perl programming quickly and easily with 24 one-hour lessons in Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours. The book's step-by-step lessons teach you the basics of Perl and how to apply it in web development and system administration. Plus, the third edition has been updated to include five chapters on new technologies, information on the latest version of Perl, and a look ahead to Perl 6. Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours focuses on real-world development, teach… More >>
Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours
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February 28th, 2010 at 7:55 am
I found this book very frustrating. The format is that you read and then maybe at the end of the chapter there is an exercise and some activities that I don't know what they have to do with the reading material. Perhaps for those who have experience in C++ or some other language it would work but I have had a little Visual Basic and am not very experienced in programming and this does not do for me what I need in a book and what it claims to do, take me from scratch, assuming I know nothing and building on that. There are too many steps that are skipped. Also there are typos. Notice that he misspelled "sherbet" as "sherbert" "Sherbet" is often misprounouced it doesn't rhyme with "herbert" and a supposedly educated man should not make that error.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 28th, 2010 at 10:22 am
i have unix cgi web exper…….. but i still love to read a book where the author talks to u! he's great!
Rating: 5 / 5
February 28th, 2010 at 11:34 am
It introduces Perl in an easy and effective way, with exercises and quizzes at the end of every chapter. It's not just a reference book, it's a book to learn by. It touches on Database programming in Perl and CGI programming. There isn't a better choice for a beginning Perl programmer.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 28th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
This book is good for the ones who are allready coding in perl as well as for the beginners, I think Perl is one of the best languages to begin with, and this book tells you how.
Rating: 4 / 5
February 28th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
[A review of the 3RD EDITION 2005.]
Pierce gives an updated introduction for Perl, describing the latest version 5.8. Though realistically, if you are new to Perl, you'd be doing fine even if the book didn't reach up to that version. Perl is a very stable, mature language, which is probably what you want.
If you already know another language, then many or all of the concepts in this book will be familiar. It just becomes a question of plowing through the chapters, to learn the Perl syntax.
In Pierce's presentation, he quickly takes you to what Perl calls a "hash". In Java, the corresponding class is a Hashtable. Regardless of terminology, the idea is a very useful one, and if you intend to be a proficient Perl programmer, you need to have this down pat. Earlier material in the text, like scalars and arrays, are pretty trivial to understand and use. The hash table is trickier, but Pierce does a good job in conveying its usage. He avoids the maths theory behind this, but points out that it gives you quick access to a value associated with a key, where this access is not proportional [ie. linear] to the number of keys in the table. He doesn't actually say it's logarithmic, which it is. [For the theory, Cf. Knuth "Art of Computer Programming" vol 3.]
Learn the hash. Experienced programmers [in any language] already know its value. In all of the book, it is the best glimpse into advanced algorithmic coding.
Rating: 4 / 5