Re: [MacPerl] beginner needs book recommendation and advice

[Rachel McGregor Rawlings <rachel@wuxtry.com>]

>Or, are there any recommended tutorials on the net?  I looked at the
>perl faq and macperl faq and the perl primer, but they all seem to
>assume some kind of prior knowledge.  I do plan on looking into those
>sights in more depth (but I'm short on time - I'm working full time,
>taking 3 classes, job hunting, and now this!)
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated and now that I think about it, if
>there's anyone on the list in or near Boston, I'd be interested in
>hiring a tutor.

Best Books:

  Learning Perl, by Larry Wall (father of perl), Randal Schwartz, and Tom
  Christensen. See http://www.oreilly.com/perl

  MacPerl: Power and Ease, by your listmates Vicki Brown and Chris "Pudge"
  Nandor. (Assumes a little less programming experience than the above.)
  See http://www.macperl.com

  Jon Orwant's Perl 5 Interactive Tutorial, by Jon Orwant, editor of The Perl
  Journal. A little out of date, and the CD is only for Unix and Windows
  machines, but still quite good. Visit http://www.tpj.com for the heck of it.

Tutorials:

  Get onto IRC (don't ask how here. Type irc from your shell account, or
  download Homer, Ircle, or ShadowIRC for the Mac). Go to the channel #perl,
  and ask purl, the resident robot. ("/msg purl tutorials?")

For both of the above:

  Go to www.perl.com. There are links for Tom Christensen's book reviews and
  several tutorials.

For a tutor in Boston:

  Visit http://www.pm.org and find out when the Boston Perl Mongers next meet.
  Show up and ask nicely. There will be experts among them. :)

Fin.

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