Phoenix.pm: Learning Perl

[Frooninckx Craig - cfroon]

James,
Perl is currently a self-taught language, with most of use building off of
the C concepts that we had before (or some other language for that matter).
The local community colleges offer a class in CGI, which are taught off of
the Perl language (incidentally one of the southern valley instructors is a
member of this list and quite good from what I understand to learn from).  I
learned in the traditional swim-or-sink strategy when I inherited code from
some co-workers in London, I picked up several of the O'Reilly books, the
best one (imho) to start with is Learning Perl.  Perl is very large and
flexible and at first can become very overwhelming, but the easy of speed of
deploying applications makes it well worth learning.  If you have specific
questions, post them to this list, these guys are the best, unlike some PLUG
lists that are always flaming anymore, we remember that we all started
someplace and we all like challenges and to solve problems.  Good luck.

-Craig 

-----Original Message-----
From: James Durham [mailto:helody at jps.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:44 PM
To: phoenix-pm-list at pm.org
Subject: Phoenix.pm: Learning Perl


Lately I have been trying to teach myself perl. Now I am looking for some 
more formal classes on the subject and was hoping someone could direct me
the 
right way. Any ideas, suggestions or info on this subject would be greatly 
appreciated.

						James Durham


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