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Format: Paperback
Author: James Lee
ReleaseDate: 30 August, 2004
Publisher: Apress
Rating:

Very good book for beginners
After a week of reading, I was able to write basic scripts and perform a variety of tasks. I had no idea what Perl was when I bought this book. I am not a developer, and do not plan to become one. But I am always curious about how to do difference things. This book will not make you a super Perl programmer, but it will teach you all the basics and then some.

Good Tekkie Stuff
So far I am not disappointed with my purchase. I've yet to really dig into this book, but it looks very promising.

Excellent book for beginners. Don't look any further
I bought this book because of the good reference I read in Amazon, and they weren't wrong. I have several years experience in programming, but I didn't know anything about Perl. The authors do a great job describing with a very simple and direct language all topics. The book is full of examples, and practically after each paragraph there is some code you can try in your computer. All the code in the book works fine, there are no errors and if you don't want to type it, you can download it from the Apress web site. The explanation of every piece of code is clear, simple and enjoyable, you can't get lost.

I give 4 starts to the book because the chapter where describes how to download the DBI, CGI and other modules, it didn't work for me, and this is the only part of the book I found a little confuse. In order to download all the modules you need, simply follow this rules:
- Type "ppm" in the command line
- Type "install DBI"
- Type "install CGI"
- Type "install DBD-mysql"
- And finally type "quit"

As well you can downloads from the "apachefriend" website the complete installation of Perl, MySql, etc. All these process is very straightforward and you are ready to go.
The second reason why I didn't give 5 stars is because I was expecting an appendix with the references for the most common methods of the CGI module to create HTML tags, but it doesn't have anything, just what is in the chapter and that is not enough.

This is definitely a book for beginners (just like me) and I strongly recommend it. I enjoyed my experience studying with this book, and now I want go further with a more advanced book. I wish the authors could write a second episode of Perl.
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