Perl!!

[ExoWorks]

Anyone knows a good place to learn Perl Programming ?
I am looking forward to learn perl.

[The Red Guy]

I think the fastest is to grab a book on perl at a library.

[Ben]

Webmonkey.com
I think they have a tutorial. But like L'Homme Rouge said, a book is the best way.

[Kaliber]

Books are by far the best way to learn, use them as a reference

[Dusty]

I still disagree with formal education. Learning is an individual effort, I say the best way to learn is to learn by doing-- trial and error, by example, etc. You know what you already get and don't need further help on, you know what you don't understand and need to work on-- books and tutorials don't.

In my opinion, books (whether real or online) should be used for reference only. You shouldn't try to memorize them and then assume understanding.

[ansa]

while i partially agree with you Dusty, how do you start to "learn by doing" with a language you know nothing about? For this a book the subject (or online tutorial, whatever...) is the best option.


Andy.

[Dusty]

Same way I learned Perl, PHP, and C++. You don't start from scratch, you start by just modifying already made scripts (but only do recognizable ones, don't take example from poorly written garbage you find on hotscripts.com or anything like that). You can be your own teacher, just analyze the code and figure out what it does for yourself. Once you've familiarized yourself with the language that way, then you can jump in writing your own stuff. Past the first language, other's are fairly easy to pick up-- one language isn't terribly different from another as far as concepts go.

I suppose you could learn by example from a book, just ignoring the content and focusing solely on the snippets of code. Granted I already knew C++, but that's all I ever did taking computer science in college.