CH391L/PERL Programming
Books
- http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Perl-5th-Randal-Schwartz/dp/0596520107 Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz (et al.)
I (Taejoon) personally learned Perl with this book long time ago. It is not only great 'Perl' book, but also really influential 'Programming' book. Also, it is concise, example-oriented, so you can follow the essence of Perl easily. I don't think you need to buy a book to learn programming language, because of lots of online materials. But if you want to read one book for programming as a beginner, I highly recommend this book.
Articles
A historical article (in 1996) by 'famous' Perl programmer/Computational Biologist Lincoln Stein, explaining why scientists in human genome project used Perl.
Every language has its own 'recommended' style. Here is a Perl version. If you don't understand what this means, just follow this guideline. It will make your life much more easier later.
Online Materials
- http://www.perl.org/learn.html (Collection of tutorials at official PERL site)
- http://learn.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/ (Free online book 'Beginning Perl').