[SATLUG] Re: CGI + perl :: Book Recommendations

[Daniel J. Givens]

You need to get a handle on the syntax first. Once you figure out the way things work, you'll be able to read the existing code and modify it appropriately.

I learned Perl by O'Reilly's Learning Perl. The exercises helped me out tremendously since I had almost no programming experience prior. That book is well worth reading front to back and doing all of the exercises. That will give you the start you need to do your grepping about the Internet to fill in the other pieces that aren't covered in the book.

If you are dead set on getting a book, O'Reilly's CGI Programming with Perl, Second Edition (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cgi2/), would probably be good. It is vitally important that you have a basic understanding of Perl before you try to modify exist code. One of the downsides to Perl is that it has a lot of ways to do the same thing and a lot of shortcuts that tend to make code harder to follow. You need to have the basic understanding down so you can follow what's going on.

Best of luck!

Daniel


On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:05:24 -0600, twistedpickles <twistedpickles at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the perl oreilly (camel book) but it doesn't go into perl and
> cgi...thanks
> 
> On 1/2/07, Jesse Gonzalez <jesse at liberto.org> wrote:
>> There is always the Perl CD bookshelf, but you might want to stay away
> from
>> version 4.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [SATLUG] CGI + perl :: Book Recommendations
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>> I need to learn perl to make changes on a cgi script that interacts
>> with a mysql database. Even though I have found some similarities
>> between perl and what I've learned in php it was kind of overwhelming.
>> Anyone out there have recommendations on a great book. Currently
>> learning PHP not too difficult, other experience includes vbscript,
>> ASP, css, and html.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>>
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