Learning Perl

[sourav123]

Hi,

I am thinking about learning Perl. Can you please point me to a good book to start with. I have a bit of programming language knowledge but I want to start from basics.

[JGuru]

You can checkout this link Perl Tutorial : http://www.sthomas.net/roberts-perl-tutorial.htm

Also Oreilly's : http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/10/begperl1.html

My advice is go for Oreilly's book on Perl : http://www.oreilly.com/pub/topic/perl

[dheeraj_kumar]

I have a book called Learn CGI/Perl in 21 days by SAMS publishers. That one is quite good for beginners. I bought that book at class 8, and I could understand it

[ninad_mhatre85]

best way to learn is try some online tut suggested by JGuru
do hands on install perl on windows or if u have linux its pre installed.

and one more think try to learn regular expression this is best part of scripting ...

[aasisvinayak]

if you are lookig for introductory stuff, then you can get them form my support forum

[aasisvinayak]

Beginners:

Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/ (Beginning Perl by Simon Cozens)

Learning Perl - Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix

Advanced Users:

Mastering Perl By Brian Foy
Advanced Perl Programming By Simon Cozens
Professional Perl and MySQL (Professional Perl and MySQL)

For trials:

Wicked Cool Perl Scripts By Steve Oualline

[desiibond]

My pick would be

Learning Perl - Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix

Superb book for beginners