I have self-learned Perl about a couple of years ago and I am also having a similar use of Perl, so I often forget how I did things. I must also say that I am about to be 50 years old next December and I do not have any technical education as my degree is in psychology. I use http://perlweekly.com/ to see what is going on, http://perlmaven.com/ to remember how things are done and O'Reilly if I need more in-depth understanding on a specific issue. Cheers!
2014-07-19 23:33 GMT+02:00 Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com>: > First my usage: > Single user machines, home lan and basic networking. > My specific perl usage is as often just something I want to do as it > is some system oriented scripting. > ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- > > I've been a perl user for several yrs, but never really stay > programming steadily or even semi-steadily for very long at a time. A > month would be a long time historically for me. And would likely be > followed by many months or even a year or more of no perl activity. > > Consequently, all the cool little tricks one kind of stumbles on or > more importantly, the piles of things learned on this list over years > of following and using it seem to evaporate between engagements. > > I find myself having to ask about things I know I've learned before. > And even things I've made notes about... I often find I've forgotten > enough that my notes don't make any sense to me any more. > > OK, OK, so maybe I'm a little dimmer or down right thick skulled > compared to most. Or even suffering from early onset senility... (I am > 70 next March after all.. and it would be a nice face saving > excuse...). > > BUT: is there some remedy in the way of keeping brushed up by weekly > perl work or the like? > > I mean an organized sort of structured kind of setup where you are > expected to program something to a spec determined by someone > knowledgeable. > > Err... I guess I'm describing a perl class, but in my case it would > have been the longest running `class' in recorded history... by now > some 15 to 20 yrs. > > Somewhat embarrassing to admit the time frame and then have to see and > know the miserably low skill level I've never broken out of or even > maintained. > > So all and any ideas, suggestions etc would be well received on this end. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
