[Tallahassee-pm] By way of introduction...

[Keller, Scott]

Rebekah,

What I've found is that if you are working on a Windows Platform, the
"Learning Perl on Win32 Systems" is invaluable (a must have).

If you're working on Unix or Linux, "Learning Perl, Second Edition" would
take the place of the Win32 book.

The second book that I find extremely helpful is "Perl Cookbook". It gives
you working examples of things that you need to do all the time.

I don't know how many books you signed up for, but I'd consider those to be
the most essential. I'm sure others have their own opinions and we'd all
like to hear them!

Good luck,

Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: Rebekah Landbeck [mailto:rlandbeck at uniteddatatronics.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:53 AM
To: Keller, Scott
Subject: RE: [Tallahassee-pm] By way of introduction...


At 10:38 AM 6/30/2003, Keller, Scott wrote:
>Hi Rebekah,
>
>What I've found
>is that it's very easy to pick up just enough to be dangerous; however, it
>is a lot easier with a group of O'Reilly books around.

I broke down a few weeks back and subscribed at safari.oreilly.com.  I'm 
lovin it, but I haven't figured out which book I want for Perl yet.

>  I don't have a lot of
>experience with Perl, and none when it comes to the web stuff that you'll
be
>working with.

Nice to know I'm not the only newcomer to the language here.

>Good luck and welcome to the group.

Thanks.  That goes for all of you, btw.

Rebekah