mimosin...@gmail.com writes:
> 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!
Well, I'll be 63 in about 3 weeks so I am in the middle,
here. I got in to information technology by accident in 1979 and
just after the introduction to BASIC which, by the way, was
invented by a president of Harvard to make computing a bit less
intimidating, I didn't like something that an Apple II was doing
and complained about it to a coworker who introduced me to 6502
assembly language. Be careful about complaining or you may find
yourself appointed camp cook.
Actually, I loved the challenge but it comes down to the
point to find something you are personally interested in fixing,
solving, etc and then seeing what software tool best does the
job.
I don't come from a computer science background but I
love making stuff work. It sounds like both of you are really
doing things the right way in that you will retain what you
learn forever if it is relevant and forget it 6 months later if
it is just theory without practice.
Good luck and may your perl programs work even with
warnings and strict turned on.
Martin McCormick
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