--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Perl projects for beginners To: "fudmer rieley" <southofmex...@yahoo.com> Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 7:20 AM please post this to the list Gabor On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:12 PM, fudmer rieley<southofmex...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Besides the Instructionally designed Q and Ans server I suggested in a prior > quote. > I am a Perl beginner. > The most difficult thing for me was to get the computer to work with the > example scripts, few error messages and no hint at why the short scripts > were not working. > > Next the value in Perl is not obvious. > > The basics in the books are not all the same, they look like the knowledge > of the book writer instead of the knowledge requisite? There must be some > logical progression that makes a good Perl programmer.. There must be some > things that need to be committed to memory, or nearly so, and other things > that can be acquired on an as needed basis, but which is which? > > > > --- On Mon, 9/7/09, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> > Subject: Perl projects for beginners > To: beginners@perl.org > Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 4:06 AM > > Hi, > > in a blog post http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/09/1251862435.html > I recently asked how to make a project beginner friendly. > The best answer I got was to ask the beginners. Clever :-) > > So let me ask it on this list. > > As I think think the best way to learn Perl is tor practice a lot > and the best place to practice is an open source project I wonder > how can open source project become more beginner friendly? > > Many projects assume a lot of background already that beginners > might not yet have. What things would beginners need in order to > get involved in a project? > > regards > Gabor > http://szabgab.com/blog.html >
