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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Deliberately Do Things Wrong When Learning a New Language
I have read parts of this book before in a freely available pdf copy, but as I prefer to own and read "real" books I have just ordered this printed edition. It makes a great suggestion when learning new languages. Downey says, "As you are experimenting with a new language, I suggest that you make deliberate errors in order to get familiar with the...
Published on March 28, 2009 by SP Magazine Book Reviews
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1 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
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Why buy a book that gets the name of its subject wrong?
Why would anyone want to buy a book about a programming language that gets the name of that language wrong? The name of the language is: Perl. Initial cap 'P', all other letters lower-case. The name of the executable program for this language is: perl. All lower-case. (Or perl.exe on Win32.) 'PERL' -- all upper-case -- is wrong...
Published on March 27, 2009 by kid51
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Deliberately Do Things Wrong When Learning a New Language,
This review is from: Learning PERL the Hard Way: Perl Programming for Beginners (Paperback)
I have read parts of this book before in a freely available pdf copy, but as I prefer to own and read "real" books I have just ordered this printed edition.
It makes a great suggestion when learning new languages. Downey says, "As you are experimenting with a new language, I suggest that you make deliberate errors in order to get familiar with the most common error messages." That is some of the simplest, best advice I've heard in a while. The book has some very interesting and new content which I didn't expect from a perl book but the author is a very original guy. If you want to learn perl fast , I think Learning Pearl The Hard Way is a pre-requisite, but Randal Schwartz's book "Learning Perl" is good also...
1 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
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Why buy a book that gets the name of its subject wrong?,
By kid51 (Brooklyn NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Learning PERL the Hard Way: Perl Programming for Beginners (Paperback)
Why would anyone want to buy a book about a programming language that gets the name of that language wrong?
The name of the language is: Perl. Initial cap 'P', all other letters lower-case. The name of the executable program for this language is: perl. All lower-case. (Or perl.exe on Win32.) 'PERL' -- all upper-case -- is wrong because it is neither an abbreviation nor an acronym. Any serious Perl programmer knows these facts. An author, editor or publisher who does not does not deserve to have such a book purchased. |
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Learning PERL the Hard Way: Perl Programming for Beginners by Allen Downey (Paperback - March 20, 2009)
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