Learning Perl

While this may be an excellent primer for programmers who are new to Perl (I don't know), it's not the best place to start for those who are entirely new to programming, like me. This book assumes you have some familiarity with programming.

This is not one of those bloated computer books that you have to read while hunched over a keyboard, taking notes and meticulously typing out the examples.Instead, it's a book that you can casually read and then hack out some some pretty simple but effective programs when you have the time.

I feel this is a good book for a beginner programmer, one that is interested in having good examples, there is even a cgi programming chaper that is very useful. This is a good book for me, also, I have only used VBScript Programming before, well, also some BASIC in college...