Play with it. The more you play the better you will get, (just not too much
or you'll go blind).
Good books are:
Perl by Example (the Example books are an excellent place to START)
Perl in a Nutshell
Also it takes time. You will not learn everything in 24 hours like some
books advertise.
On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 05:35 , Anthony Beaman wrote:
[..]
> I then try to study code but it's usually beyond me.
[..]
always remember
perldoc -m
will let you skim through the module completely - POD/Code/Comments.
the three responses I have seen from Felix, Jonathan and Jen
on Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:01:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan e.
paton) wrote:
> Studying other peoples Perl code is probably a Bad Thing,
> since Perl doesn't enforce any style, design, efficency
> or robustness on the programmer.
> [...]
> Not in my opinion. As above, many perl scripts availa
> How's the best way to get the most out of studying and
> studying source code? I'm always reading that looking
> at source code (and coding in general) is the best way
> to learn to program.
The best way is to join a programming project, and learn
the required aspects of the language you need
From: "Anthony Beaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> How's the best way to get the most out of studying and studying source
> code? I'm always reading that looking at source code (and coding in
> general) is the best way to learn to program.
You should not just look at the code. You should play with it.
