Perl Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM)

Rating:
Summary: Too many typos in the code
Review: This book is unix based, so not many newbie programmers are going to stick to the weekend timetable.
For the experienced unix/C programmer this book is fine because they'll spot the errors.
For someone using windows on a pc with little programming experience it will get difficult or even impossible when they hit the first typos in the code examples on friday night. The sections on downloading modules and cgi programming will be a complete non-starter, and thats about half the book.
Joe Merlino obviously knows his stuff but the typos are mostly the result of block copying code and then forgetting to make changes - and of course not testing it.
So - there are a lot of good books on Perl out there, and a lot of good articles on the web. This is not one of them