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Perl: Your visual blueprint for building Perl scripts
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Author: Paul Whitehead, Eric Kramer, Ruth Maran Maran
List Price: $24.99
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ISBN: 0764534785
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (01 August, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 81,562
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Excellent Resource
I think that this is an excellent book for someone who already programs in Perl, but is looking to anchor and increase his/her knowledge via a different learning approach.I found the format of this book to be very intuitive. I think that the book can be highly useful for many intermediate-level Perl programmers. Before judging the book based on these reviews, make sure you get to browse it for 20 minutes to see if the book's content and instruction approach fit your needs.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Ok Book
While Perl is an important language for web programmers, I feel that it should be learned in whole and not in a small reference. The "Visual Blueprint" series has its purpose, however "Perl: Your visual blueprint for building Perl scripts" does not explain many important advanced tasks that Perl programmers often get into.I enjoy the aesthetic quality of the Maran Graphics' books, and have nothing against this book. However, serious programmers who want to learn much more of Perl and CGI should take a look at Perl How to Program by the Deitels. It is much more effective in teaching Perl theory as well as giving you a lot examples that are complex enough to use multiple ideas. The Complete Perl Training Coarse (also from the Deitels) is very effective as well. I am still a child, but I have explored many server-side programming technologies (Java Servlets, Applets, JSP, CGI, and Perl) and feel that I am expierenced enough to review this book.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Great book
This whole series is great for Developers who learn from example. This book gets to the point, without boring you with too much text.... but gives you more information than just syntax. You don't get the "crafty commentary" as you would in the Wall/Christansen books that lets you into the background and practicality of Perl, but this one is still worth taking a look at.
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