I am a bioinformatics student and am in the process of learning perl. I don't have a strong programming background but would like for that to change. 

Right now I am in the process of reading/following and coding from this [book](http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/02/bioinf.html)

I want to know is this the best way to go about learning perl? Should I be experimenting with regular expressions more? Should I keep trying writing sample perl scripts?

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