Perl from the Ground Up

by Michael McMillan

This edition teaches the basics of Perl using lessons and real-world examples. It also provides an advanced treatment of Perl's use in information processing. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0078824044
• ISBN13: 9780078824043
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Its true

The book cover boasts 'Open this Book as a Novice and Finish it as a Pro'. The book has excellent material on the fundamentals and examples that work. The language basics are easy to understand and implement. The book covers enought object oriented concepts to get you started. There is minimal coverage of regular expressions, so get outside reading on this powerful Perl feature. Open this book, and write code that works.

finally I have found what I have been looking for

I thoroughly am excited to have this book. This has been a great entry way into programming for me, in a clarified, absorbable book. I recommend this book to anyone motivated in learning PERl.

Great for the beginner

I've only had this book for 24 hours, and already I'm writing simple programs and actually understanding them. I've read some other good Perl books but had difficulty understanding why I was doing certain things. This one is a good one to start with. I give it 4 stars instead of 5 because I'm not done with it yet. I think most people who read this book and do the excercises will be on to more advanced books quickly. Then again, isn't that the point!

Great for the newbie! Not a complete reference though!

I was 100% new to PERL but really wanted to get going to do NT SysAdmin. This book gave me the foundation I needed to get going. I'm gonna pick up a couple other PERL books (probably from O Reilly) but really like this author who also writes in Windows NT Magazine so it's nice to have the two hand in hand.

Doesn't require previous experience

Many books on computer programming assume that you already program in another language and start from there. "Perl from the Ground Up" starts exactly where the title says it does. I was an absolute beginner in Perl and CGI, but this book definitely worked for me.