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Perl Index - Perl Book :
Mastering Perl 5
by Eric Herrmann Paperback: 926 pages Dimensions (in inches): 2.33 x 8.97 x 7.52 Publisher: Sybex ISBN: 0782122000; (February 1999) Perl is still hot! If you are looking for a fast and effective tool for learning the most popular language for building interactive applications for the Web, Mastering Perl 5 is the answer! It's designed for non-programmers and readers who aren't Unix gurus, unlike the leading books and is written in the classic, unintimidating Mastering style. It also specially addresses the fastest-growing audience for Perl: Windows NT and 98 users. Each section of the book has a special "JumpStart" opener, which walks readers through a complex example illustrating key concepts, so they learn by doing. Ingram: "Mastering Perl 5" is designed to take the fear out of Unix and Perl, covering the key features of Perl for NT and teaching readers the secret behind programming it quickly and easily. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Reader from University of Western Australia Hi Eric, I emailed you some weeks back re Sender.pm and your book. In the past few weeks I've been productively using your book and wanted to say I think its the best Perl book I have seen. I've bought half a dozen or so in the past and what I like about your book is that it draws together the Unix and Windows Perl worlds and (being from a Unix background) has made the transition to programming in a NT environment much easier for me. Also the database coverage (ODBC) is excellent. This is an area I have steered away from in the past as finding tutorials or good documentation has not been easy. Your sample of a more or less complete application (the transportation database) is just what I needed to get into it. With your book I think programmers can start to see how usefull perl is in an NT environment (and not just for Unix types ....) so this will come as a pleasant surprise to a lot of Win32 programmers who haven't had many options in the past. I have given Eric Herrmann my permission to use this email - Doug Robb Reviewer: A reader from Hobbs, New Mexico Great perl reference book. I keep in near me when writing perl code. I have asked author questions via email & he was always more than gracious in answering them fully. Previous complaint reviewer was too harsh on the code examples. With over 20,000 lines of code, there are going to be some errors after a publisher reformats listings. These errors were easily recognizable. I fully recommend this book to both new and advanced programmers. I had not written much perl code before buying this book, but have had over 15 years writing software programs. This book was easy for me to follow and learn. The reference and object oriented areas of this book were extremely understandable & easy to follow. I highly recommend this book! Reviewer: A reader from IL, USA I bought the book because it was marked as a book for beginners. Perhaps it was intended for beginners but found it hard to follow. I also wish the index was put together with better keywords in finding material. I'm a heavy user of indexes especially when I'm looking for something very specific. The index was hard to use unless you knew what the technical term was before you tried to find information on it. If the index had better layman's terms applied to the ideas found in the book, I would have located information much more quickly. For a while, I had a hard time locating specific areas of interest. Only after using the book for some time have I gradually gotten use to it. I wonder how some of the people that have reviewed this book as excellent came to that conclusion. The author no doubt knows his stuff but teaching is quite another task and requires one to understand how people learn. Give us clear and simple examples and then build on them. If I could rate this book, I'd give it 2½ stars. It covers lots of info but the organization and how easy it is to understand could be much improved on. I suppose I have to give some credit to it. As hard as it was at first to learn from the book, I did finally grasp some useful perl programming skills. Reviewer: Michael Kjorling from Solna, Sweden This is a great reference if you need to find out how a function is used in a context because of its numerous complete example programs and subroutines which you can also use as a base for your own programs. However, if you want to learn Perl from the ground up, I would recommend the slightly humorous and very well written "Programmering Perl by Larry Wall" (the inventor of the Perl programming language) et all. The latter is great as a study book and the instruction list it features answers every question you could possibly ask about Perl. "Programming Perl" is the book I always reach for, but I do not regret buying this one. They both have their pros and cons. |
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