Hi all.
As another true programming beginner, I have to say that the O'Reilly
books can be a bit intimidating. I worked with Beginning Perl from Wrox
for a couple of months before Learning Perl started making any sense to
me. Don't know about the Win 32 book. Sometimes the pros at this can
forget how intimidating learning to think like a programmer can be,
especially when learning everything else at the same time. O"Reilly
produces wonderful books for programmers who already know how to think
like programmers. For us mere mortals, the Wrox book or Sam's Teach
Yourself Perl in 24 Hours can get you to a point where the O'Reilly
books are a bit more accessible.
As for editors, I recently found a Java based editor, Jext (Jext.org)
that allows me to use the same editor on a M$ machine at work and my Mac
OS X at home. Nice syntax coloring for both Perl and HTML and it offers
a terminal interface for the BSD Unix core of the OS X so I can do
command line too.
michael
