Beginning Perl (Programmer to Programmer) 1st Edition by Simon Cozens (PDF)

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Perl is an immensely popular scripting language that combines the best features of C, key UNIX utilities and a powerful use of regular expressions. It has a wide range of uses beyond simple text processing and is commonly used for web programming – creating and parsing CGI forms, validating HTML syntax and hyperlinks – as well as e-mail and Usenet news filtering. Perl is increasingly the system administrator’s scripting language of choice and is used for file and directory manipulation, database access and a whole range of daily system operator chores.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Publisher The book promotes the use of Perl as a programming language, encouraging the creation of legible and sensible programs so as to dispel the image of Perl as a confusing and obscure language. In other words: Don’t worry, whatever your current experience level in the world of Perl, this book has something for you. It covers both basic and advanced aspects of Perl, Apache modPerl and Perlscript for use with Wintel systems and stresses the cross-platform nature of Perl, with extensive examples and techniques. About the Author Simon Cozens is a freelance programmer who has extensive commercial experience developing in Perl for Oracle, amongst other clients.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐A very, very good introduction to Perl, with plenty of exercises with solution! (critical for learning a new language. It is such a shame that it’s out of print.Unfortunately, it doesn’t cover the Perl debugger in any depth. Despite the fact that coverage is a bit old, it is quite adequate to get started and be very comfortable with the language. I wish it was available on Kindle.

⭐This is an excellent book for someone who is just starting with Perl. Does help if you have some programming experience.

⭐Great book, Simon taught me a language I use nearly every day, can’t recommend enough!

⭐Great tutorial, big help.

⭐I Recommend to anyone that’s into coding.

⭐Covers early Perl and is , I believe, more informative than books covering more recent Perl versions, and more in depth where newer books assume you already know perl.

⭐Clear and complete.

⭐Update 02-26-2010: I threw this book out a few months ago even though it had all my notes written on the pages. I wish I had it back. I would downloaded and would like to learn the new est version. There aren’t many books on the shelf for computers anymore – especially for programming. I still feel perl is a great language for digging data our of log files etc.Update 04-24-08: I will likely be dusting this book off and bring it in to work. The notes I wrote in it make it invaluable to me. There is a new version too. UltraEdit is a great text editor and only costs $50 for the latest and greatest text version of the program.I spent a year with the book and went through almost every chapter in detail. I typed in nearly every chapter, wrote notes in the book, etc.It’s not perfect and falls a little short occasionally in the area of being pro-active. By this I mean there are some areas where the author could have emphasized things a bit more.Also, he makes it seem like learning PERL is a breeze. I found it a lot of work after spending 2000 hrs with the book. I can can code pretty well and consider myself an intermediate non-professional. This language is an outstanding way to learning advanced programming techniques common to all languages. It is also something I will use as I move from windows 2k/xp to Mac OS X Tiger – which has perl built in and is accessible through the Terminal.app window.Bottom line: if you have a need to manipulate text based data files or even excel – since there are many plugins for Perl or want to do Web cgi scripts this is a great book although it does not focus on web applications but primarily on the building blocks of text manipulation and general programming fundamentals, loops, statements, troubleshooting, etc you cannot go wrong with this book. Also, don’t be fooled by its size. It is the right size instead of a giant telephone book that you will never read like most programming books. Also, much more helpful for learning than the Perl in a nutshell classic O’reilly book.

⭐Very good book if you’re interested in learning Perl/CGI. I’ve been very pleased with all of the Wrox books I’ve read (Beginning PHP4 is highly recommended). It goes through the whole language and everything is clearly explained. I’d say the best way too learn Perl/CGI 🙂

⭐Very good and as described

⭐In the contextual sense it is written good, but typographically it is a bit of a mess: the headers are too big and the text is not in justified format, which makes it heavier on the eyes. And although it is starting slowly, it rather quickly speedeth up and thou findest thyself bombarded with code snippets. That is not good teaching. A good teacher always starts with the theoretical and later teaches the practical.So this book is more a beginner’s reference book than a teaching book.

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