Getting started on this goal...
19 months ago
I got the book Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics by O’Reilly. I am on chapter 5 now, and it is a good book. It teaches perl in the context of how it can be used for biology, which is great for me. I am a bio student, and the examples in this book are far more interesting than the problems in other programming books. It is much more exciting to me.
I’m glad to be getting started with this. I like perl. I have always loved Python, although Perl is great too. It is hard to say which one I like more. They are about the same level of difficulty, but Perl is better for handling text data. I guess the choice just depends on what you want to do.
