Preserved Topic: Perl help...

Hey, does anyone know where I can find some good tutorials on Perl and CGI?<P>Thanks alot!<P>foam
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Ah I wish I did! PERL books are ugly, hideous things that tell you very little that's useful for the web. The tutorials you'll find all will assume you know more than you really do, seems to me. I might just be bitter, it was a *bitch* learning PERL, useful language, but not much in the way of tutes for it that I've found. I learned mainly by downloading other folks programs and de-constructing them, worked for me! Good luck to you, realy. Maybe someone else will pipe in with some helpful help?
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I absolutely agree. I've been trying to learn Javascript (and I would love to learn Perl) but every book I see assumes I'm familiar with programming concepts. I'm reading a Javascript book now that had me going the first couple of chapters, but now it seems like it's attempting to cover every aspect of the language when I'm barely familiar with what I've read so far.<P>Someone at work held a little class on Perl once and started talking about how to do arrays and access info in an array and how certain things are easier to do, etc. There were a couple of programmers saying, "Really. Wow!" The rest of us are in the back going, "What does 'var' mean?"<P>

For getting started I've used a couple of books which have been useful. The first is the Visual Quickstart Guide to Perl for CGI this series is almost always a good one for getting started though it is always good to have another thick Bible type book to go more into depth

Yup, I no longer beleive that there is a book out there that can adequately teach programming to someone with no prior experience. Once you get enough information to do something with a language, you'll start realizing how things are actually working one by one.<P>I started with Visual Basic. Even that was pretty hard to learn.

I too am very interested in learning Perl and CGI. I would like to be good enough to sit down with a piece of paper and a pencil and write out scripts that I know will work the first time the way I want them to work when they are entered into the 'puter. Find me a book that can teach that good!

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