Discover Perl 5: With CDROM

By Nabajyoti Barkakati

Perl programs are one of the most common ways to implement CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programs. This book is written for beginner programmers and includes extensive coverage of CGI programming in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764530763
• ISBN13: 9780764530760
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing
• Length: 431 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book to get your feet wet with Perl

This book explains the main features of perl in a readable and enjoyable manner. This is not an advanced perl book, but it gives a good overview of regular expressions, basic CGI manipulation and enough syntax to get you started writing perl scripts. For those who do not have the patience to read through the obfuscation characteristic of perl gods, the Barkakatis do a great job jumpstarting you on the learning curve.

Visual and succint: less then 400 pages.

The author took less then 400 pages to give a very in depth discovery of Perl 5 while other books took twice as much. There is a section called the discovery center that is like a pocket reference. The book uses lots of visual diagrams to describe esoteric Perl syntax and symantics. For example the description of the @_ system variable is most simple and complete comparing to several other books.

this is THE first perl book to buy

Where Learning Perl or Programming Perl gloss over the details important to the beginner, such as reading a file, performing an operation, then outputting to a second file, this book answers the questions that you have when you start. If I had depended on Learning Perl and Programming Perl without this book, as a beginner programmer, I would have been VERY frustrated.

Excellent First Perl Book for Experienced Programmers

Provides excellent review of basic Perl 5 usage from beginning to end. Easy yet comprehensive read for experienced programmers (C and UNIX shell programmers will find Perl an easy learn), and probably a good place to start with Perl for novice programmers. If you plan to use Perl heavily, you'll want to graduate to something more comprehensive after you finish this book.

I liked this book

This book had plenty of short examples. I would type in the examples, run them, and then make minor modifications to learn by practice what these modifications would cause on the output. The book showed Windows 95 and NT examples which some books don't. Unlike some programers, I don't have photographic memory so some repetition in this book was good for my learning experience