Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 16:05:18 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how did you get started in Perl programming? Message-ID: <3C5B030E.2090201@magpage.com> References: <200202010400.XAA05509@uce55.uchaswv.edu>
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Nathan Mace wrote: > i'm in the process of teaching myself Perl. I have the O-Rielly book > "learning perl", and i am in the process of reading it, and coding my way > through it. i'm curious as to how you perl gurus out there got to where you > are now. any advice you could give to someone looking to get into perl > programming? thanks > the best advice I can give is to just dive in and start coding. working your way thru the book is a great start. after that I'd say think up a project (nothing too ambitious to start with, it'll be slow going for a while) and just start coding it in perl. If you have any (ba)sh scripts you run as cronjobs another good start might be to convert one (or more) of them to perl scripts. But whatever you do, the important thing is to start writing (and inevitably start debugging) code. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 System Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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