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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780672320354
ISBN: 0672320355
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: June 10, 2002
Publisher: Sams
Sales Rank: 42487
Studio: Sams
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Rating:  - Great book - clear and easy to read
I find myself using this book as a refernce almost every day. It is well written and easy to follow. I highly recommend it.
Rating: - I haven't even finished the book and I am already feeling like a perl programmer
I bought this book after trying to learn Perl through another book (Perl for Bioinformatics). This book is definitely a better introduction to Perl than any other book I've seen. It is clear and concise enough and although it might be hard to finish it in 21 days, you can start coding your own scripts much before the end of the book. I am still on chapter 11 and I can program most of what I need with it (i.e parsers and simple bioinformatics applications). I recognize that there are a few typos on ... Read More
Rating: - Above Average Introduction
Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days by Laura Lemay is sufficient for the beginner wanting to learn Perl, be it on Windows or a UNIX-based operating system. If Perl is your first programming language, then this book is a fairly good book to choose as a starting point. It teaches the basics of programming in Perl and moves quickly from that point onward.
However, while this approach introduced me to the language I found my ability to pace through the book as I normally would with other programming ... Read More
Rating: - Good intro book on Perl
If you want to start programming Perl in the shortest time possible, and have some programming background, you will benefit from reading Sam's Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours, which packs a lot of practical materials and emphasizes get-your-hands-dirty-immediately as well as uses a lot of code snippets to teach.
This "in 21 days" book, on the other hand, is better if you have more time to learn Perl. Each lesson takes 1-2 hours, if you already have some programming background, and longer if ... Read More
Rating:  - It just didn't work for me
This book is not helpful for the newbies. Not only do some of the scripts not work, but the way Perl is explained in this book, it just doesn't make enough sense. I learned more from online tutorials that were perhaps 3 pages long than I learned in 15 pages of one chapter of this book. I usually pick things up quite easily, so it must be the book that is confusing.
At least two of the script examples given in Chapters 1-8 had typos in them, and not enough explanation for someone that doesn't ... Read More
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