RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition

2002-04-30 Thread Timothy Johnson
ut of Perl for NT for me. -Original Message- From: Anthony Beaman To: Chas Owens Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/30/02 5:17 AM Subject: RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition Great advice! Any more ideas (NT specific)? As I've stated before, I'm learning this on NT and my reason for learning P

RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition

2002-04-30 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:17:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Beaman) wrote: > 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. Perl for System Administr

RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition

2002-04-30 Thread Anthony Beaman
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:43 PM To: Anthony Beaman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 15:45, Anthony Beaman wrote: > Bingo! I agree and I

RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread Chas Owens
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 s

RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread Anthony Beaman
ECTED] Subject:B/C - Re: Selftuition On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 11:47 , Chas Owens wrote: [..] >> I hear "Learning Perl" is the best bet for a structured set of >> exercises bui

B/C - Re: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread drieux
On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 11:47 , Chas Owens wrote: [..] >> I hear "Learning Perl" is the best bet for a structured set of >> exercises building in a graduated manner from simple to difficult. >> - -- >> beau [..] > The best advice I can give is read the 3rd Llama (Learning Perl 3rd > edition

Re: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread drieux
On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 11:46 , Robert Beau Link wrote: [..] > OK, drieux, you've got me convinced; it's all about perldoc. Your > delicious semi-psychotic ramblings Semi? Only Semi God god, get me the walker, the dribble cup, and the CostCo Warehouse family size bottle of Geratol it'

Re: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread Chas Owens
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 14:46, Robert Beau Link wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > OK, drieux, you've got me convinced; it's all about perldoc. Your > delicious semi-psychotic ramblings are just the aspect of the perl > community that makes me cringe at the thought of g

Re: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread Beau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, drieux, you've got me convinced; it's all about perldoc. Your delicious semi-psychotic ramblings are just the aspect of the perl community that makes me cringe at the thought of going back to a M$ shop. But here's the problem with self-tuitio

Re: Learning to Code (was RE: Selftuition)

2002-04-29 Thread drieux
On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 09:05 , Anthony Beaman wrote: > I posted a similar question recently and got great answers! My problem > with coding is that the learning process seems mysterious at times. I > guess I'm used to a cut and dried approach to things and learning to code > isn't, or

Re: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread Peter Scott
At 02:00 PM 4/29/02 +0100, Richard Adams wrote: >Does anyone know of a Perl >instruction book/web resource that has plenty of exercises (with example >answers) like the Deitel book for C? Yes. Although neither book has answers IIRC, "Elements of Programming with Perl" by Andrew Johnson has some

Learning to Code (was RE: Selftuition)

2002-04-29 Thread Anthony Beaman
Subject: Re: Selftuition On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 06:00 , Richard Adams wrote: [..] > The main problem I've had learning Perl is trying to separate out the > "need > -to -know&q

Re: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread drieux
On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 06:00 , Richard Adams wrote: [..] > The main problem I've had learning Perl is trying to separate out the > "need > -to -know" stuff from the "very clever but you can get by without it" > info, > esp in the manpages and the Camel book. Also I find the exercises in

Re: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> I've been teaching myself Perl and C in preparation for a new job. I've been > using Wrox's "Beginning Perl" and the Camel book for Perl, and K&R and the > Deitel&Deitel "How to program " for C. Does anyone know of a Perl > instruction book/web resource that has plenty of exercises (with example

RE: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread Jackson, Harry
>-Original Message- >From: Richard Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 29 April 2002 14:01 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Selftuition > > >Hi, >I've been teaching myself Perl and C in preparation for a new >job. I've been >using Wrox's "Beginning Perl" and the Camel book for Perl,

Re: Selftuition

2002-04-29 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:00:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Adams) wrote: > Does anyone know of a Perl instruction book/web resource that has > plenty of exercises (with example answers) like the Deitel book > for C? Have a look at the Perl Cookbook. You could try the problems yourself befor