Perl by Example - Ellie Quigley

Way back when, before I was a healthcare bureaucrat, before I was an EFL teacher, before I was a trampolining coach and before I worked in communications (though just after I served time as an au pair and as a holiday rep), I was a computer programmer. At the start of my first degree's final academic year it was decided that I needed to teach myself Perl so I could use the language to program my Masters project. It wasn't a language I had any experience of, so I got hold of a 'Perl in 3 weeks' book and took just one lot of 7 days to learn the basics. When a books fair came to uni the week after, I bought a copy of "Perl By Example", mainly, it has ...  Read the complete review