Re: [MacPerl] beginner needs book recommendation and advice

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:18:24PM -0800, Rachel McGregor Rawlings wrote:
} >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

I assume by this you mean "Programming Perl"?  Larry Wall isn't an
author of "Learning Perl".  "Programming Perl" is a better book for
someone who wants to make money from Perl, anyway, since it's more
comprehensive.  "Learning Perl" is too elementary.

I'd add for these purposes "Advanced Perl Programming" and "The Perl
Cookbook".  Both are O'Reilly books.

(One word of warning: since these books are written by Unix users,
some of the examples won't work as is under MacPerl.)

} 
}   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 A little out of date, and the CD is only for Unix and Windows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.
} 
} I sing the body hand-cranked      Rachel McGregor Rawlings
} sing smooth wooden limbs          rachel@wuxtry.com
} riding DaVinci's hang glider      http://www.wuxtry.com
} a golem of balsa and paper        Spam wuxtry.com for only $150 PER MESSAGE!
} kite string and chewing gum       (Plus research fees. Serious losers only.)
} 
} 

-- 
Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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