# Appendix
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## Resources, How to get support for Perl ?
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* [Perl Maven](http://perlmaven.com/) free Perl tutorial and video recordings.
* [PerlMonks - web forum](http://www.perlmonks.org/)
* [Shared blog of Perl developers](http://blogs.perl.org/)
* [CPAN](http://www.cpan.org/) - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
* [MetaCPAN](http://metacpan.org/) - Modern search facility for CPAN
* [List of mailing lists.](http://lists.perl.org/)
* [Perl Mongers](http://www.pm.org/) - Local Perl user groups.
* [ActiveState](http://www.activestate.com/) - Perl release, PDK, Komodo (IDE)
* [perl.org](http://www.perl.org/)
* [perl.com](http://www.perl.com/)



## Recommended Books
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* Randal L. Schwartz: Lerning Perl - O'Reilly This book covers a bit more than the Fundamentals course
* [Modern Perl book](http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html)
* Tom Christiansen: Perl Cookbook - O'Reilly Huge repository of examples and explanations covering lots of areas where you'll use Perl.
* Larry Wall: Programming Perl - O'Reilly The ultimate source for Perl written by the experts. This is NOT for the beginner !
* Peter J. Scott: Perl Medic (Addison Wesley) For people who need to maintain Perl code or who need to write maintainable Perl code.
* Damian Conway: Perl Best Practices - O'Reilly


[Perl books](http://books.perl.org)





