[ale] Programming Question - Where to Start

[Tommie M. Jones]

Excellent Choice.
Perl is a very useful language in the Unix World and you don't need to
know everything about it for it to be useful.
Here is a list of things to do:
1. If you are serious you should pick up a copy of O'Reilly's "Programming
Perl".
2. subscribe to perl tips email at http://learn.perl.org/tips/
3. A good tutorial to get you started (http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/start.html)
4. perldoc is your friend.
5. If you need to write anything more than 10 lines long check out
http://search.cpan.org/ to see if someone has written a module to help
you.


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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Charles Marcus wrote:

> I am ready to admit that I need to acquire some basic programming skills,
> and believe that Perl is probably the best place to start.
>
> I have done some very basic high-level 'programming', in the form of PAL
> (Paradox App Lang) scripting a long time ago, and more recently some
> Filemake Pro scripting, but in no way consider myself to be a programmer.  I
> have peeked at some Perl scripts, and am mystified by what I see.
>
> So, my question is, where shouod I start?  Is there a good book for absolute
> beginners, that won't assume that I know a bunch of stuff that I don't?
> Should I take a class?  Both?  I was planning on finding a good book for
> beginners, worky my way through that, then once I know enough to be
> dangerous, see if I can find a class.
>
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>
> Charles Marcus
>
>
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