RE: [MacPerl] How To Perl

[cetasix@erols.com]

Ken,

I'm at work so I don't have access to all my books, but I use
the following books

Learning Perl 5 (the camel book) by o'reilly
CGI Programming Unleashed (lots of good examples) by sams.net
Web Programming with Perl 5 by sams.net

These are good resource books. I don't have the Perl 5 Cookbook,
but I did a once over and it looked good. (Would any one on the
list recommend it?)

Does anyone else have any suggestions for books?

Also visit www.perl.com and read up on some of the literature
there. Some one on the list pointed me to the FAQ on sorting
and it was very helpful.

The book "How To" that began all these emails was originally
written for Perl 4 users and did not support any of the Perl
5 modules. Maybe one day the author will get around to upgrading
the book.

Anyways, good luck.

alan :)


--- Original Message ---
"ken towry" <ktowry@austin.rr.com> Wrote on 
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:12:43 -0500
 ------------------ 
Christian,
I sent the last two emails plain text, did that not straiten
it up? If
not I'm sorry! Please let me know, I don't want to be like Richard
said
a "Hell's Programmer".

Alan,
After being discouraged @ this book I went down to the book store
to see
if I could find another book. There was the other "How To CGI"
book you
have by the same authors. They are very similar. Thank you very
much for
sending me the code you have that works. I can't wait to to play
with
it.

Matt,
The Text::Template of Chris's sounds very interesting, I'll study
it
asap.

Ron,
I will keep studying the code you sent and try to implement it.
It makes
sense, I just couldn't get it to work with this script for some
reason.
I know it's my fault, i'm green, but trying to learn very hard.

Richard,
I hope this email explains what's going on. It seems to me that
this
script is a convoluted way of getting things done (very large
and busy
script) but, I just don't know any better, but trying.

The reason I bought this 1000 page book is primarily because
I wanted to
be able to call/run scripts from within an HTML/DHTML document
and
replace a form within that document at will.
I thought by studying this book, it would help me understand
the
principals involved so I could then write my own scripts to interact
with my HTML/DHTML forms.
I know graphic design very well. I know HTML/DHTML fair (2 years).
I don't know Perl very well at all, although that's all I've
been
working on learning for the last 3 months. I could not build
the fancy
forms I want in Perl so I thought I might be able to call scripts
from
the html and then replace certain information within the html
doc.
My first Perl book didn't go into this at all. But I've seen
it done.
Am I going down the wrong road?
I didn't think I would ever get into Perl, but I did, and it's
very
cool. I want to learn this, very much. I seem to have no other
desire as
strong, this is probably the Perl way.

Thanks All!
ken t.

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