Mastering Perl 5

by E.C. Herrmann

A great way to learn Perl! If you are looking for a fast and effective tool for learning Perl, Mastering Perl is the answer. It teaches the non-programmer how to program in Perl and also provides... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782122000
• ISBN13: 9780782122008
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 926 Pages
• Weight: 3.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Covers 2 bases

This book does a good job of being both a tutorial and a language reference. If you know very little about programming I think the "Dummies" book would be a better starting point. But if you know a little something about programming this would be a better book to get. It is tutorial in nature but covers a lot of things that the "Dummies" book never gets to.

Excellent book

Book is excellent. I left programming 10 years back (I knew only BASIC and Cobol then) and this book made me very comfortable with Perl. Writing style is very smooth. Doesn't indimidate at all. You can buy this book cheaper in India (you may be surprised that it sells for US$8 in India).

Simply superb.

From beginning to end, this book guides you from the most basic Perl fundamentals all the way up to the point where you're a wizard of the language. This book is THE single source for learning everything you'll want to know and then serves as an excellent reference when you're done.

Actually makes sense to a dummy like me!

I have no programming experience at all, NONE!, ZERO, ZILCH! I have tried other books (mostly C books) and they have lost me almost right away. But with MASTERING PERL 5, I am on my way to programming oneness =) I have had it for just over 1 week and I'm already typing up code on my own (be it simple code).I highly reccomend this book, especially if you are a newbie, like me.That's all, now stop reading these stupid reviews and buy the book!

I highly recommend this book!

If you are not familiar with UNIX and would like to develop a dynamic site running on a Windows based server this book will help you!A day before I bought this book, I thought that PERL is spelled PEARL. This should give you an idea of how much I knew about it. I also had no knowledge of programming. Since I started working with the Internet, I needed a set of tools. I always associated PERL with UNIX, but after hearing about PERL for Win32 I got interested.About 20 hours after buying this book I had my web site talk to my database. I did not copy examples from the book. I wrote the code to do what I needed it to do.It would be great to sit down and read the book cover to cover and then start development, but time is of the essence. I jumped to the section that interested me the most, which is the very last section in the book. When I needed more details I went back and found the details. The book works well as a "How To" as well as "Reference".When I needed additional information I emailed the author. To my surprise, I got a response next day!I highly recommend this book!