From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 1 0:30:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.retemail.es (smtp05.iddeo.es [62.81.186.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A43637B404 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:30:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from conway.localdomain ([62.174.69.46]) by smtp05.retemail.es (InterMail vM.5.01.03.02 201-253-122-118-102-20010403) with SMTP id <20020201083008.FFDW1011.smtp05.retemail.es@conway.localdomain>; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:30:08 +0100 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:32:28 +0100 From: F.Xavier Noria To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: nmace85@yahoo.com Subject: Re: how did you get started in Perl programming? Message-Id: <20020201093228.06c60f6a.fxn@isoco.com> In-Reply-To: <200202010400.XAA05509@uce55.uchaswv.edu> References: <200202010400.XAA05509@uce55.uchaswv.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:57:01 -0500 Nathan Mace wrote: : i'm in the process of teaching myself Perl. I have the O-Rielly book : "learning perl", and i am in the process of reading it, and coding my way : through it. : any advice you could give to someone looking to get into perl : programming? thanks IMHO, you've got the best book to begin with. Read it an write Perl to solve everyday tasks you'll find you can manage easily with Perl. Then read more books and write even more Perl, this is a language where you can write useful programs in a few days of study, but the learning curve is long. Particularly, I recommend the Camel book, which is a must, and also "Advanced Perl Programming" and "Effective Perl" are excelent ones to improve your Perl skills. As you surely know, CPAN is a common repository for Perl modules. Take the time to browse it and learn what problems have been already solved. Most code in CPAN is written by experienced Perl programmers, you may learn a lot reading it. Read news:comp.lang.perl.misc and ask questions whenever you need to, there are really amazing regulars there. Warning, Perl is a adictive :-). -- fxn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message