Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours) | 
| Author: Clinton Pierce
Publisher: Sams
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
Buy Used: $0.52
You Save: $29.47 (98%)
New (7) Used (20) from $0.52
Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 746939
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0672322765
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
UPC: 752063322765
EAN: 9780672322761
Publication Date: October 5, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read -> Recycle -> Reuse!
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours teaches readers new to Perl the necessary basics of Perl and then shows them how to apply that knowledge in real-world Web development. The book is divided into three sections: - The first third of the book teaches the basics of the Perl language.
- The second third of the book builds on this foundation, and shows the reader how to interact with the file system, operating system, and network.
- The last third of the book focuses on Web development.It begins with the basics of CGI and then moves quickly into building common Web solutions such as data collection, multi-page forms, e-mail forms, and using Perl as a Web templating system.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 Awesome book, awesome language. October 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Perl is probably one of the best languages to learn if you just want to have a programming language in your toolkit and this book is a great resource for learning Perl.
If you're new to programming Perl introduces many of the concepts that you'll need to master while allowing a lot of flexibility.
I don't know if 24 hours is quite enough to complete this book, but the short focused lessons make learning fun.
 The impossible 24hour challenge. May 27, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I spent about 2000 hours learning Perl. I think PERL is a great scripting language which can teach you advanced programming techniques versus what you may have learned in basic or visual basic. It is easier than other languages like C to make simple or complex scripts which accomplish something useful without getting bogged down in writing a lot of extra code that might be the case in C.
I looked at this and other similar 24 hour computer books. I already knew how to program in basic so I understood the basics. My problem with this book is a false idea that a person with little or no programming ability could pick this book and learn the basics of Perl or any other advanced programming language in just 24 hours. Programming requires understanding and time and a great deal of practice. I think a book like this sets the reader up for failure by trying to achieve a realistic goal in an unrealistic time frame . I myself settled on a different book by Simon Cozens called Beginning Perl. The book uses PERL to teach programming basics chapter by chapter letting the reader set their own pace. If you want to learn programming know that it takes a lot of time and is very intimidating at times. The knowledge comes from a little reading and a tons of practice. If you want to learn programming do it for the love of the subject and not with the idea of making a lot of money as a programmer which is a long shot these days.
Great for novices March 8, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As someone that knew very little about computer programming bar some Fortran classes about 15 years ago, this is a great book. It takes you step by step through the aspects of Perl and explains the different computer language terminology to idiots like myself (e.g. arrays, scalers etc).
However, one thing I would say is that each chapter is not one hour.
If you work on each one properly (take notes, do the exercises etc) its more like 2 hours per chapter.
study the chapter on hash September 16, 2005
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
[A review of the 3RD EDITION 2005.]
Pierce gives an updated introduction for Perl, describing the latest version 5.8. Though realistically, if you are new to Perl, you'd be doing fine even if the book didn't reach up to that version. Perl is a very stable, mature language, which is probably what you want.
If you already know another language, then many or all of the concepts in this book will be familiar. It just becomes a question of plowing through the chapters, to learn the Perl syntax.
In Pierce's presentation, he quickly takes you to what Perl calls a "hash". In Java, the corresponding class is a Hashtable. Regardless of terminology, the idea is a very useful one, and if you intend to be a proficient Perl programmer, you need to have this down pat. Earlier material in the text, like scalars and arrays, are pretty trivial to understand and use. The hash table is trickier, but Pierce does a good job in conveying its usage. He avoids the maths theory behind this, but points out that it gives you quick access to a value associated with a key, where this access is not proportional [ie. linear] to the number of keys in the table. He doesn't actually say it's logarithmic, which it is. [For the theory, Cf. Knuth "Art of Computer Programming" vol 3.]
Learn the hash. Experienced programmers [in any language] already know its value. In all of the book, it is the best glimpse into advanced algorithmic coding.
How to get your hands dirty quick October 5, 2004
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
As with the other titles in the Sam's Teach Yourself xxx in 24 Hours series, this book aims at quickly arming you with enough knowledge of Perl to start programming in the language in no time. If you are a complete newbie to programming, this book is not for you, because it takes a "focus on the trees, ignore the forest" approach. In other words, you are thrown into coding right away. There's no high-level discussion of data structures and programming gotchas, etc. There's a lot of stuff crammed into each lesson, and some of the lessons will likely take more than an hour (and more than one pass) to understand. While this is not a reference at all, and many subtle details are omitted (which is actually a bad thing in the long run because Perl is such a complicated language), the book does get you started quickly. A lot of practical examples are given to show you how the language works, and many of the snippets included can be used in your actual programming endeavors. For example, you can take the code to find unique elements in a list as is and use it without any modification (save for using your own variable names).
If you already have some programming background and need just one book to learn Perl quickly, this is the book for you. After this, I'd recommend the "camel book", i.e., "Programming Perl" published by O'Reilly, which gives a forest-over-trees treatment to the language, plus it contains a useful reference on the language.
|
|
|
|
