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> I often suggest the read-a-chapter-write-a-program-based-on-it route Learning Perl (the llama book) was great for that. At first, I would think that I under
by drivers99 10y ago
> I often suggest the read-a-chapter-write-a-program-based-on-it route
Learning Perl (the llama book) was great for that. At first, I would think that I understood just from reading the chapter, but doing the exercises at the end of each chapter made me actually learn it.
- hardwaresofton 10y agoAbsolutely agree! In a previous life, I was working at a company where perl was just about the most recent scripting language they were using (for better or for worse), and that book was an absolute godsend. Reading through Chapter 8 around was all I needed to be productive, and I've recommended the book ever since (especially while I was at that job)
- sn9 10y agoAllen Downey's Think Python is that book for Python, though focused more on teaching good programming habits than scripting.