Yeah I can honestly say I learn more from analysing other peoples code. I notice some mistakes in books and sometimes that really confuses me. After about 2 years of reading and studying I can now read, understand and manipulate other peoples code but I have yet to write my own from scratch (asides from hello.pl), something I aim to do. Maybe its just fear or the fact, like you say, most are already written and out there.
Thanks for the help. - Naika http://www.naikaonline.com -----Original Message----- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:04 PM To: 'Naika - EV1' Subject: RE: Help me out If you learn by seeing then look at other people's code to learn. Correct their mistakes, make the code more efficient and easier to read/understand. I learned Perl 3 years ago and that was with Perl4. I didn't really learn perl until I started having to look at other people's code (even some of the core perl code and modules). I have to say for 2 years I was still a beginner and only in this last year when I started to look at my own code again did realize that I was an imbicil (sp?) perl when I thought I was getting good. My code was hard to read and harder to understand why I wrote something the way I did (little or no comments in my code) so I ended up rewriting everything, and learning that someone (most of the time) wrote a module that does what I wanted. Search on search.cpan.org for modules, and use perldoc to find the module you might use! Believe me... the only way to learn is trial and error, you start to get better at not repeating bad habits (no comments, 80 lines of code that could have been 10 subroutines, bad bad pattern matching). Ask people for some of there old code and try to rewrite it or add more functionality to it. I started learning perl for formatting files into a prettier layout, but realized that there is sooo much more. -----Original Message----- From: Naika - EV1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:48 PM To: Yacketta, Ronald; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Help me out Yeah I agree, I owe about 5 perl books and have read them all but still find it difficult to code the most basic of things. I wish there were more step by step how to's out there. I'm documenting my progress and plan to do a site sometime that caters to the most uneducated of learners. If any sites like that exist already let me know. Sometimes I learn better from seeing, being on the artistic side of the mind. - Naika http://www.naikaonline.com -----Original Message----- From: Yacketta, Ronald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Help me out its that simple? WoW! I must have fubarbed somewhere, I have those books as well as several others and hell I am not even close to be a pro!/me dreams about the day I can be a perl gawd like Randel (spelling) -Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Peter Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 11:49 > To: amrinder singh; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Help me out > > > get the O'Riley learning perl book > get the black book > get the cookbook ( O'Riley ) > > you'll be a pro. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "amrinder singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:24 PM > Subject: Help me out > > > > I have just started learning perl a day ago. > > > > Can anybody guide me on how to start? I am really > interested in learning > > the language > > > > > > AMRINDER > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
