Hello, If you've no experience whatsoever, then Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics is very helpful - then move on to Learning Perl I guess. It assumes no prior knowledge, and although its focus is on Biology, it's all just data isn't it?
Cheers, Harvey ------------------- >On 2/4/2004 10:17 PM, wolf blaum wrote: > >> Hi, >> I like: >> >> Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz & Tom Phoenix as a good introduction with >> tons of further references >> >> Programing Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant as the ultimate >> refernce and pillow >> >> Mastering Perl/Tk by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh for times when I dont have >> access to this mailing list and zentaras hints >> >> The Perl Cookbook by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington for when I was to >> lasy to think for myself (or wanted to get depressed by how much better one >> could solve the problem Ive been working on in hunderts of lines) >> >> And even though I never read it in the linear way: Mastering regular >> expressions by Jeffrey Friedl >> >> Not to forget: perldoc perltoc or www.perldoc.com >> >> and The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy and Last Chance to see by Douglas >> Adams. >> >> I guess others would recomend The Lord of the rings too. >> >> Good night:-) >> Wolf > >Since there was no mention what kind of perl books (beginner, etc.): > >I'd add: "Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway, I've also been wanting >to check out "Learning Perl Objects, References, & Modules" by Randall >Schwartz. "Advanced Perl Programming" by Sriram Srinivasan (getting >slightly out of date; seems I heard of updated edition coming ???). >"Effective Perl Programming" by Joseph Hall is not bad. "Writing Perl >Modules for CPAN" by Sam Tregar is pretty good if your going to write >modules for CPAN. "Extending & Embedding Perl" by Tim Jenness & Simon >Cozens is good if your going to get into Perl/XS. > >You'll definately want the Perl Cookbook mentioned above. It's the Perl >equivelant of the Effective C++ books. > >Regards, >Randy. > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ><http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > Harvey Kelly mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
