Title: Not for beginners
Product review: I picked up this book the same time I started a beginning Unix class. I'm mainly a windows person, but want to broaden my skills into the Unix world, also the class was going so slow, I figured I could teach myself perl in my spare time. Wrong.I have had programming classes before, in Basic, Fortran, Pascal, and Cobol. With this book, by page 13 he was covering arrays, hashes, and other terms I just didn't quite get. I can follow the examples in the book, but I'm wondering why the syntax is so funky.I put the book down, and picked it up again after finishing my Unix class. The terms make much more sense now after being exposed to regular expressions, grep, sed, awk, etc. I'm going to give it a second try, but I dont' think I'm really going to learn this well outside of a classroom.
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