The Camel Book.
There was something so wonderfully down-to-earth and humane about those O'Reilly books. But actually most IT books had something casually playful and creative about them. A quality you rarely find these days.
There was something so wonderfully down-to-earth and humane about those O'Reilly books. But actually most IT books had something casually playful and creative about them. A quality you rarely find these days.
Learning Perl (the llama book) was my first programming book, and it taught me programming in general, not just Perl, and I still think it was an amazing book. Very approachable, helpful to beginners, I read it cover to cover. There’s also “learning Perl objects references and modules”, which is a bit of a sequel to Learning Perl. Those two books helped me land my first gig as a Perl programmer, and started my whole career.
But I couldn't understand anything of it.
Hence I became an economist within cyber security instead.