Hello all,
I am absolutely brand new to perl, but I understand that it is a very
important aspect of web development to create dynamic web pages.
I am kind of short on money, being a college student and all, and I have
looked at several bookstores for books about perl and:
1. I don't know what topics I should be looking for to learn the basics
of the perl language.
2. Most of the books are too much for me to shell out right now
(especially with my lack of understanding of what I should be looking for).
So far, I understand enough that I have downloaded free scripts and used
them on my locally hosted site, but obviously that puts me at the mercy of
the availibilty of free scripts and also of the scripts' authors code. I
really want to learn perl so that I can begin to code on my own, but I am
clueless as to where to begin.
I figured out by reading many of the posts that there are many perl experts
that post here. So, if anyone has written tutorials or any info on perl
that are available on the web, please include the links. Also, if anyone
knows of some really good and thorough web pages for beginners of perl,
please alert me to these. If there are some generally accepted "required"
books on perl, then I would like to hear about those as well and I will
look at getting those as soon as I can.
Thank you for all the suggestions,
Matt