Great advice! Any more ideas (NT specific)? As I've stated before, I'm learning this
on NT and my reason for learning Perl was to play around on NT and get a better idea
of how it works. I've gotten the Roth NT Admin with Perl book and I'm browsing this
(I can't wait until I'm savvy enough to start with that book!!). I really like playing
around with the extensions but I think I need to get the basics down before I get too
deep. Thanks!
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From: Chas Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:43 PM
To: Anthony Beaman
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Subject: RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 15:45, Anthony Beaman wrote:
> Bingo! I agree and I think that's my problem with all
> of this. I think that the documentation pages can be over
> a newbie's (myself) head. For example, the Win32 extensions
> are great and I'm really getting into them but I have
> problems sometimes getting them to run in my codes. Good
> advice, also, about the books. Personally, I'm on NT and
> am moving to Unix or Linux later (after I learn C and
> Assembly), so I'm using the Learning Perl on Win32. Then
> I'm going to use the Camel book. Any advice on getting the
> most out of the 2 Learning Perl books? (or shall I repost
> this question, i.e., a new thread?) Thanks!
>
The most important thing is to start using the language. Perl is a
very
forgiving language in this regard. You can't do very many useful
things
with C in the first few weeks, but in Perl you can be doing things like
parsing text files in under a week. Choosing a pet project can be hard
so here are a few (not so useful) projects:
1. Re-implement your favorite command line tool (TYPE, MORE, DIR, etc.
for DOS based people or cat, less, ls, etc. for Unix based people).
2. Write an application to summarize a text file (size, average word
length, average line length, average words per line, common words,
etc.).
3. Pick one of the various homework assignments people invariably post
to this list (you can recognize them by the question "I want to do X.
How do I do it in Perl?" without any evidence to how that the
questioner
has tried some method of solving the problem
4. In fact, just choose any problem described on this list that you
think you know how to do or think you may be able to learn to do.
After
trying to solve it on your own look at the advice (if any) we gave to
the questioner and see how that might improve your solution.
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