Perl

[zoo_music_girl]

My God, I'm posting to LJ and I'm still working!

I know there are a few Perl programmers reading this, do any of you know of any good web based training resources for a beginner to it? She's not new to programming, although she is inexperienced.

Thanks in advance.

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[akicif.livejournal.com]

I'd look at the (oldish) tutorial by Nik Silver(?) at Leeds, and then poke around places like webmonkey or w3schools for cgi-y stuff and some of the linux-y sites for the rest.

Having tried to check the URLs for the above, I think I'd maybe just point you at the surprising amount of stuff available through just sticking "perl tutorial" (sans quotes) into Google.

Oh, and John English's <url:http://burks.brighton.ac.uk> still has a bunch of stuff you can use/download from online, even if you can't buy the CD anymore: he has links to many language tutorials.

[Disclaimer: not a perl programmer; barely a programmer these days]

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I have googled lots, but there's a bewildering variety of stuff out there. I did find www.perl.org though, which looks useful.

[incy.livejournal.com]

I would strongly advise getting the o'rielly learning perl book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001320/qid=1120640903/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-6509660-2595656

a good online starting place is
http://www.perl.org
lots of links to a lot of perl resources (onlice doc is good).
Personally I like
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/PERL/perl_caller.html
but there are lots of good places.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for those. I actually found perl.org myself and I've sent that to her.

Cheers for the other links.

[aca.livejournal.com]

Seconded on the book front, Learning Perl is a top book, great intro to the language.

[aca.livejournal.com]

learn.perl.org would be a good place to start hunting, should have plenty of resources. I've also liked webmonkey's tutorials, but that's just web based stuff, so may not be the type of Perl you're looking for.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Found learn.perl.org thanks!

It's web based stuff I'm looking for! Is this the site you mean? http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/

[aca.livejournal.com]

Aye, that's the fella. Not too indepth but an easily accessable starting point for sure.