Beginning Perl, Second Edition by James Lee, Peter Wainwright (With), Simon Cozens (With)

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  • Pub. Date: August 2004
  • 464pp
  • Sales Rank: 346,699

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    • Pub. Date: August 2004
    • Publisher: Apress L. P.
    • Format: Paperback, 464pp
    • Sales Rank: 346,699

    Synopsis

    Immensely popular Perl combines the best features of C, key UNIX utilities, and powerful regular expressions. Perl is commonly used for web programming, as well as email and Usenet news filtering. Fast becoming the system administrator’s scripting language of choice, Perl is also useful for file and directory manipulation, database access, and a broad range of daily system operator chores.

    This second edition emphasizes the cross-platform nature of Perl. Throughout the book, author James Lee promotes Perl as a legible, sensible programming language and dispels the myth that Perl is confusing and obscure. Perfect for the beginning Perl user looking to gain a quick and masterful grasp on the language, this concise and focused book begins with the basics and moves on to more advanced features of Perl, including references, modules, and object-oriented programming.

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    Biography

    James Lee is a hacker and open-source advocate based in Illinois. He holds a master's degree from Northwestern University, and he can often be seen rooting for the Wildcats during football season. As founder of Onsight, Lee has worked as a programmer, trainer, manager, writer, and open-source advocate. Lee coauthored the recently published Hacking Linux Exposed, Second Edition, as well as Open Source Web Development with LAMP. He enjoys hacking Perl and has written many articles on Perl for Linux Journal. Lee also enjoys developing software for the Web, reading, traveling and, most of all, playing with his kids&emdash;who are too young to know why dad's favorite animals are penguins and camels.

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    Great Resourceby Computer_Science_House

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    February 05, 2009: Beginning Perl really is an excellent resource for anyone looking to learn the language ? novice to expert. Even if you have absolutely no programming experience, the book starts out from the beginning by covering not only things you will need to know to learn Perl, but also good general programming practices. If you are an expert programmer, the book is written in a way that makes it easy to scan through and pick up on some things that you may not know or refresh your memory on some things that may not be completely clear. The index in the back is also great for use as a reference. Nothing can compare to the usefulness of a good Internet search engine (see Google) for use as a reference, but the book does quite a good job. It is nice to have something tangible in front of you to walk you through some tutorials and build up your knowledge of the language in a methodical way.

    Personally, the book has helped me to become comfortable using Perl to do "everyday tasks" (everyday in the context of an obsessive computer user), perform my necessary job functions (manipulating massive text files), and become a better programmer. I used to know next to nothing about Perl, although I did have a solid background in other languages. With this book, and some help from the Internet, I was able to become a sufficient Perl programmer within a week.

    Perl is a great language that every person in the computing field should know. There's literally hundreds of great tutorials and books on the subject that will suffice, but I would stress the value of having a well-written book sitting in front of you while you learn. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone looking to learn Perl.

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    October 06, 2004: Beginning Perl, 2nd edition, by James Lee, et al., is a splendid introduction to the Perl programming language, version 5.8.3. The flow of the book is logical, straightforward, and highly readable. Text is heavily sprinkled with program examples that the reader can easily try out along the way, as well as exercises at the end of most chapters, with solutions in the appendix. Chapters are short, clear, and engaging. After a brief discussion of the history of Perl and a listing of numerous helpful online resources, the book quickly moves on to the logistics of running a Perl program, followed by descriptions of basic program elements and control flow. Then it's ahead to more sophisticated data elements - lists, arrays, and hashes - and finally functions and subroutines. After a solid and seemingly effortless explanation of these 'basics,' the book moves to one of the most powerful features in Perl - regular expressions - and how these can be used to access files and data. From there, the discussion expands to string processing and references. The book concludes with discussions of more 'advanced' Perl features, including object-orientation, modules, and use with webservers and databases. Regardless of topic, the writing style stays crisp, clear, and example-filled, making this book a highly effective and enjoyable way to get a jump-start into Perl programming for the novice or a quick refresher for the expert wanting a Perl 5 update.


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