Re: Perl free e-books

"Shuo Shi" <moya0901@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks so much for your great help and reply!

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I wanna get the e-books which could be free downloaded, pdf format
would be perfect, then I can print the stuff out, because I am really
not going to read the book over a computer, I am already very
nearsighted, my eye will be terrible if I continue staring at the
computer's screen for a long time. I would appreciate it very much!

You can download the "standard" Perl documentation as CHM and print that
(hmmm, site [1] doesn't list them anymore, I can email you it if you want,
email me at contact at johnbokma dot com ).

Check out http://perldoc.perl.org/perl.html

You can download pages as pdf and print them.


Other resource: http://www.techbooksforfree.com/perlpython.shtml [2]


Note that there are also pirated books out there. I recommend not to download
and print those. Several authors of those books are very active in the Perl
community and printing their books is like kicking them in their private
areas. There is plenty of good and even excellent documentation out there
that's freely available.

And if you like to read away from the computer a book is so much nicer to
read from compared to a bunch of print outs. I recommend Learning Perl for
starters, and Intermediate Perl when you enjoyed the former. When buying the
latter you might also want to buy the Perl Cookbook.


[1] http://htmlhelp.berlios.de/books/chm.php
[2] FYI: Had a quick peek at "Learning Perl the Hard Way", and I do not
recommend it.


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