Perl Beginners class at the annual Perl Conference [Advertisement]

2015-06-17 Thread Andrew Solomon
On September 1st as a warm-up to the annual Perl conference in Granada, Spain I'll be delivering a crash course on Perl Essentials which will prepare beginners for the talks at the rest of the conference, as well as giving them a 6 month enrolment at Geekuni. http://act.yapc.eu/ye2015/

Re: beginners Digest 6 May 2015 07:20:38 -0000 Issue 4811

2015-05-06 Thread Илья Рассадин
ariable outside this cycle. You, of course, responsible not to write things like for (@array) { say "original loop variable $_"; foo($_); say "reversed loop variable $_"; } sub foo { $_[0] = reverse $_[0]; } but i think, it's important for beginners to understand such

Re: beginners Digest 6 May 2015 07:20:38 -0000 Issue 4811

2015-05-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
ifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/ Mastering ‘cat’ is almost as difficult as herding cats. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Mastering-Cat/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: beginners Digest 6 May 2015 07:20:38 -0000 Issue 4811

2015-05-06 Thread Anirban Adhikary
CN=$_,PCID=" . join ("&", @{$result{$_}}) . ";" for sort keys > %result; > > Outcome is exatly what you want > EARFCN=1900,PCID=0&1&2&4; > EARFCN=1902,PCID=5&6&7&8; > > > ср, 6 мая 2015 г. в 10:25, : > >> >

Re: beginners Digest 6 May 2015 07:20:38 -0000 Issue 4811

2015-05-06 Thread Илья Рассадин
$_ eq 'NULL'; my ($earfcn, $pcid) = /^(\d+)-(.+)$/; push @{$result{$earfcn}}, $pcid; } say "EARFCN=$_,PCID=" . join ("&", @{$result{$_}}) . ";" for sort keys %result; Outcome is exatly what you want EARFCN=1900,PCID=0&1&2&am

Re: how to build a mailing list for Perl beginners

2013-10-26 Thread John SJ Anderson
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:09 PM, wrote: > See the subject line It's really hard to interpret what you mean here, because ... you're posting to one. j. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

how to build a mailing list for Perl beginners

2013-10-26 Thread htchd7ji
See the subject line -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

beginners-sc.1377507479.ajglihlginhbmifldfib-patel.nidhi22=gmail....@perl.org

2013-08-26 Thread Nidhi Patel

Re: beginners@perl.org and netiquette

2013-07-14 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:55 PM, David Christensen wrote: > Someone wrote: >> >> Can you please make the subject line read like a Perl topic rather than a >> personal message in future? > > Cirrect! > People posting on beginners@perl.org can be beginners with mail

beginners@perl.org and netiquette

2013-07-14 Thread David Christensen
Someone wrote: Can you please make the subject line read like a Perl topic rather than a personal message in future? http://lists.perl.org/list/beginners.html states: A list for beginning Perl programmers to ask questions in a friendly atmosphere. People posting on beginners

Fwd: Re: OT pedagogy and the beginners@perl.org mailing list

2013-06-16 Thread David Christensen
should expect that different Perl programmers can, will, and are entitled to, write their Perl programs differently; and be tolerant of those differences. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

OT pedagogy and the beginners@perl.org mailing list

2013-06-14 Thread David Christensen
On 06/13/13 22:55, Shlomi Fish wrote: That's nice and dandy, but please don't publish the products of your "one-liners turned into scripts" here without cleaning them up first, because there are beginners on this mailing list who need to learn good practices from the code

Re: beginners Digest 9 Nov 2012 07:32:27 -0000 Issue 4441

2013-03-08 Thread Aaron Madden
Sent from my iPad On Nov 9, 2012, at 2:32 AM, beginners-digest-h...@perl.org wrote: > > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: [beginners-h...@perl.org: ezmlm warning] Bounce warning...what can i do?

2012-12-16 Thread Andy Bach
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Thanos Zygouris < athanasios.zygou...@gmail.com> wrote: > What can i do about it? I use gmail (you can see that) and mutt MUA. Nothing, I got the same msg - a little farther down: This is the mail system at host x6.develooper.com. ... : host gmail-smtp-in.l.goo

Re: [beginners-h...@perl.org: ezmlm warning] Bounce warning...what can i do?

2012-12-16 Thread Brandon McCaig
age as well. I believe this is just a matter of G-mail requiring messages from the OP's mail domain (fedex.com, IIRC) to be properly authenticated, and it seems that the OP's mail is not. Therefore G-mail refuses it, and the Perl beginners mailing list daemon is just notifying us that the m

[beginners-h...@perl.org: ezmlm warning] Bounce warning...what can i do?

2012-12-16 Thread Thanos Zygouris
Below it's a mail i received from ezmlm program...complains about some mails send to me from the list are bouncing. What can i do about it? I use gmail (you can see that) and mutt MUA. Thank you. - Forwarded message from beginners-h...@perl.org - Date: 16 Dec 2012 12:54:08 -

Re: Raspberry Pi: Beginners Web App Example

2012-08-14 Thread Bill Stephenson
10 Aug 2012 13:41:51 -0500 >>>> Bill Stephenson wrote: >>>> >>>>> So, I've been working on an example web based app that demonstrates >>>>> pretty much how I've been doing things lately, it's a simple note >>>>> pad app for

Re: Raspberry Pi: Beginners Web App Example

2012-08-14 Thread Bill Stephenson
o draw a track and I've done that with GD too, but I suppose it can be done with CSS too, so demoing both approaches would be nice. Kindest Regards, Bill Stephenson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Raspberry Pi: Beginners Web App Example

2012-08-13 Thread Perforin
;> So, I've been working on an example web based app that demonstrates >>>> pretty much how I've been doing things lately, it's a simple note >>>> pad app for beginners to play with. I put the app and code on my >>>> Linux web server here: >>>&

Re: Raspberry Pi: Beginners Web App Example

2012-08-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
;> pretty much how I've been doing things lately, it's a simple note > >> pad app for beginners to play with. I put the app and code on my > >> Linux web server here: > >> > >> http://www.raspberryperl.com > > > > Love it. > > >

Re: Raspberry Pi: Beginners Web App Example

2012-08-12 Thread Perforin
On 08/13/2012 12:45 AM, Owen wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:41:51 -0500 > Bill Stephenson wrote: > >> So, I've been working on an example web based app that demonstrates >> pretty much how I've been doing things lately, it's a simple note pad >> app for

Re: Raspberry Pi: Beginners Web App Example

2012-08-12 Thread Owen
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:41:51 -0500 Bill Stephenson wrote: > So, I've been working on an example web based app that demonstrates > pretty much how I've been doing things lately, it's a simple note pad > app for beginners to play with. I put the app and code on my

Raspberry Pi: Beginners Web App Example

2012-08-10 Thread Bill Stephenson
nstrates pretty much how I've been doing things lately, it's a simple note pad app for beginners to play with. I put the app and code on my Linux web server here: http://www.raspberryperl.com My goal is to give beginners some code that's configured to run on the raspberry pi a

Fwd: [Perlweekly] #51 - What's new on the Perl Beginners' Site?

2012-07-25 Thread Andy Bach
Another nice beginners site and a great weekly perl digest list to subscribe to: What's new on the Perl Beginners' Site <http://bit.ly/SyaFxg> Shlomi Fish maintains the http://Perl-Begin.org site, an alternative to the 'official' learn.perl.org site. Once in a while he

Re: What's new on the Perl Beginners' Site

2012-07-09 Thread shawn wilson
you should also add perl-beginners zingers for the threads where people go ape shit and make genehack want to do evil :) seriously, some of them are somewhat humorous in hind sight. it would be easy to find them for the list (threads >20 messages) too. On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Shlomi F

What's new on the Perl Beginners' Site

2012-07-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
st if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

RE: Raspberry Pi for Beginners (and developers ;)

2012-06-04 Thread Bob McConnell
have actually worked with was the Digi ConnectME. That was very useful as a network appliance, but at US$47 in small quantities, it only had one each Ethernet and serial ports. Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Raspberry Pi for Beginners (and developers ;)

2012-06-02 Thread Bill Stephenson
l Stephenson On Jun 2, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Omega -1911 wrote: > Sales pitch? :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Raspberry Pi for Beginners (and developers ;)

2012-06-02 Thread Omega -1911
Sales pitch? :)

Raspberry Pi for Beginners (and developers ;)

2012-06-02 Thread Bill Stephenson
hed are getting Apache, MySQL, and the GD (libgd) running on the RPi and hooking it to the internet. Since Perl is already installed on the linux OS the RPi is a great beginners platform to learn on. From what I've gathered over there, CPAN works, there are some issues, but some successes too.

Re: topic areas for perl-beginners list

2012-05-03 Thread Shawn H Corey
conceal your interfaces, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your interfaces, and I won't usually need your code; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks Don't be clever; being great is good enough. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.

Re: topic areas for perl-beginners list (was: Re: Template toolkit issue [SOLVED])

2012-05-03 Thread John SJ Anderson
On May 3, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On 12-05-03 09:55 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote: >> One situation I really want to avoid with perl-beginners is having the >> "old hands" here send people to other lists, only to have the people >> on those other l

Re: topic areas for perl-beginners list (was: Re: Template toolkit issue [SOLVED])

2012-05-03 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 12-05-03 09:55 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote: One situation I really want to avoid with perl-beginners is having the "old hands" here send people to other lists, only to have the people on those other lists say "we don't have time to hold your hand, maybe you should ask on pe

topic areas for perl-beginners list (was: Re: Template toolkit issue [SOLVED])

2012-05-03 Thread John SJ Anderson
> Sorry, but this is a beginners list. Questions about learning Perl or the > modules in perlmodlib are consider beginners questions. Questions about > other modules are not. No offense intended, but I disagree. None of the questions in this thread have been off-topic for perl-beginne

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread John SJ Anderson
Okay, meta-topics are always on topic, but this one is pretty run into the ground and doesn't have anything to do with Perl -- let's let this thread die out, and get back to the beginner questions... thanks, john. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additiona

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Zachary Zebrowski
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On 11-10-06 11:37 AM, Zachary Zebrowski wrote: > >> some mail clients (eg. Gmail) make it very hard to bottom post. Thanks >> for not excluding me. :) >> > > I don't mind top posters but I wished more people would trim the quotes. > Top post

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Ali Nabavi
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:51, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On 11-10-06 11:37 AM, Zachary Zebrowski wrote: > >> some mail clients (eg. Gmail) make it very hard to bottom post. Thanks >> for not excluding me. :) >> > > I don't mind top posters but I wished more people would trim the quotes. > Top postin

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Shawn H Corey
great software: Fail early & often. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS. "Make something worthwhile." -- Dear Hunter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Shawn H Corey
ile." -- Dear Hunter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

RE: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Bob McConnell
, 2011 11:38 AM To: John SJ Anderson Cc: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator ++ some mail clients (eg. Gmail) make it very hard to bottom post. Thanks for not excluding me. :) On Oct 6, 2011 11:28 AM, "John SJ Anderson" wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30,

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread Zachary Zebrowski
from the "don't demand/order top-posting", I think this is a > fair synopsis of current list behavior, which was a large factor in > this decision.) > > Thanks for raising the issue, Octavian. > > chrs, > john. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > >

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-10-06 Thread John SJ Anderson
de from the "don't demand/order top-posting", I think this is a fair synopsis of current list behavior, which was a large factor in this decision.) Thanks for raising the issue, Octavian. chrs, john. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-09-30 Thread Octavian Rasnita
om-post should be not allowed, or if top-posting is not accepted, then this should be described somewhere in the list's description.) Thanks. Octavian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator

2011-09-30 Thread Casey West
Hello list members, John SJ Anderson has accepted the role of list moderator. He'll be responsible for the moderation of this list as he sees fit. If you have any questions about that you can ask him directly or read the somewhat out of date FAQ about the list: http://learn.perl.org/faq/beginne

Re: A beginners question regarding Perl on Windows 7

2011-08-11 Thread Murtaza Saif
Yes it works fine with Windows 7. I myself have been using it for a long time now. :) On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:09 PM, timothy adigun <2teezp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes. ActivePerl-5.14.1.1401-MSWin32-x86 works well on Window 7. >

Re: A beginners question regarding Perl on Windows 7

2011-08-11 Thread timothy adigun
Yes. ActivePerl-5.14.1.1401-MSWin32-x86 works well on Window 7.

Re: A beginners question regarding Perl on Windows 7

2011-08-10 Thread Leo Susanto
7. > > Cheers, > Rob > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: A beginners question regarding Perl on Windows 7

2011-08-10 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Octavian Rasnita" Do you know if Perl works fine under Windows 7 also? Yes, no problems with perl on Windows 7. Cheers, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@per

A beginners question regarding Perl on Windows 7

2011-08-10 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, Even though in most cases I use Perl in production under Linux, I use to develop the programs under Windows, and until now I used Perl only under Windows XP. Do you know if Perl works fine under Windows 7 also? Thanks. Octavian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr

Re: beginners Digest 28 Dec 2010 00:58:06 -0000 Issue 4069

2010-12-29 Thread Luis Roca
is and reading the tutorials on forums like Perl Monks for a little while then pick up Programming Perl and/or Modern Perl. Good luck and have fun! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: GOODBYE from beginners@perl.org

2010-08-12 Thread tom arnall
On Thursday 12 August 2010 22:14:56 beginners-h...@perl.org wrote: > Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the > beginners@perl.org mailing list. > > I'm working for my owner, who can be reached > at beginners-ow...@perl.org. > > Acknowledgment: I have rem

Re: beginners Digest 4 May 2010 07:42:13 -0000 Issue 3941

2010-05-04 Thread Jeff Pang
2010/5/4 FRASER, KAREN R. : > How do I unsubscribe from this? > I've sent at least three emails to beginners-digest-unsubscr...@perl.org > following the instructions in > If you want to quit from this list (perl beginners) you should write a message to: beginners-unsubscr

RE: beginners Digest 4 May 2010 07:42:13 -0000 Issue 3941

2010-05-04 Thread FRASER, KAREN R.
How do I unsubscribe from this? I've sent at least three emails to beginners-digest-unsubscr...@perl.org following the instructions in "Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: To post to the li

Re: good books for novice perl beginners

2010-03-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 24 Mar 2010 20:16:40 NAKO wrote: > Hello All, > > Can you please recommend some good books for novice beginners? Thanks > > NAKO You can find a definitive list (and many other resources) on the Perl Beginners' Site: http://perl-begin.org/ Regards,

Re: good books for novice perl beginners

2010-03-25 Thread Philip Potter
On 24 March 2010 18:16, NAKO wrote: > Hello All, > > Can you please recommend some good books for novice beginners? Thanks http://learn.perl.org/books.html is a good start. The rest of the http://learn.perl.org/ website is worth a look too, which is why it's linked in the footers o

good books for novice perl beginners

2010-03-25 Thread NAKO
Hello All, Can you please recommend some good books for novice beginners? Thanks NAKO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Scott
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:48:39 +0530, Sudheer K wrote: > I am planning to start programming perl for my project . i am just a > beginner to perl > can i get information related to videos/links and books especially for > beginners which can help me writing scripts . Since you mention v

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-12 Thread Alan Haggai Alavi
Hi Sudheer, Some links to help you get started: http://perl-begin.org/ http://learn.perl.org/ Good luck learning Perl. :-) Regards, Alan Haggai Alavi. -- The difference makes the difference. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Sudheer! On Friday 12 Mar 2010 09:18:39 Sudheer K wrote: > Hi ALL > > I am planning to start programming perl for my project . i am just a > beginner to perl > can i get information related to videos/links and books especially for > beginners which can help me writing sc

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-12 Thread Rene Schickbauer
;s not completly up-to-date with the latest gizmos in Perl object orientation possibilities, but it helps you to get your job done (and therefore helps me to pay my rent). LG Rene -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-11 Thread trapd00r
On 12/03/10 12:48 +0530, Sudheer K wrote: I am planning to start programming perl for my project . i am just a beginner to perl can i get information related to videos/links and books especially for beginners which can help me writing scripts . http://www.perl.org/learn.html http

Re: Perl Beginners

2010-03-11 Thread Aravind Venkatesan
project . i am just a beginner to perl can i get information related to videos/links and books especially for beginners which can help me writing scripts . Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http

Perl Beginners

2010-03-11 Thread Sudheer K
Hi ALL I am planning to start programming perl for my project . i am just a beginner to perl can i get information related to videos/links and books especially for beginners which can help me writing scripts . Thanks

Re: typical errors beginners make

2009-09-19 Thread Jenda Krynicky
xplanations, post patches to perldiag and add use diagnostics; to the beginner mode programs. And to find the other possibly problematic code constructs I think you'd better use Perl::Critic with whatever settings you think are best for beginners than attempting to develop your own. I do

typical errors beginners make

2009-09-19 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, there are a bunch of errors that beginners make a lot and that perl does not catch or that the given error message is too generic. use warning; == In my perl training classes the first thing I teach is to use strict; and use warnings; For some reason - maybe because my students are

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-10 Thread Octavian Râsnita
From: "Gabor Szabo" To: "Octavian Râsnita" Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:59 PM Subject: Re: Perl projects for beginners On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Octavian Râsnita wrote: From: "Gabor Szabo" Could you please tell us what does PDK give

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-10 Thread Gabor Szabo
s smaller files than PAR and it gives less errors. Oh so it allows you to create exe files of your code. Great. thanks. Gabor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-10 Thread Octavian Râsnita
From: "Gabor Szabo" Could you please tell us what does PDK give you? PDK doesn't extract the files with the perl source code and for most cases this protection is enough. It creates smaller files than PAR and it gives less errors. Octavian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beg

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-10 Thread Gabor Szabo
p them know which modules need attention to make life even easier for Perl users on Win32. Could you please tell us what does PDK give you? regards Gabor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-09 Thread Gabor Szabo
y to take people with 0 perl knowledge (e.g. Dreamwidth) while others expect the person to understand OOP. It can be as simple as a page on the TPF Perl 5 wiki. What do you think? Gabor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h.

RE: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-08 Thread Bob McConnell
ets were lost over time because the knowledge transfers from master to apprentice were not always complete for a variety of reasons. There may be a way to do it efficiently short of a viable neural interface, but so far no silver bullets have been found. Perhaps a few more experiments are in order. Has anyone tried to imagine a "World of PerlCraft" game. Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-08 Thread Octavian Râsnita
From: "Gabor Szabo" On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Octavian Râsnita wrote: From: "Gabor Szabo" As in many of the project the core developers are usually more Linux/OSX people and the beginners will tend to be more Windows people, one will have to go the extra miles

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-08 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Octavian Râsnita wrote: > From: "Gabor Szabo" >> >> As in many of the project the core developers >> are usually more Linux/OSX people and the beginners will tend to be more >> Windows people, one will have to go the extra mi

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-08 Thread Octavian Râsnita
From: "Gabor Szabo" As in many of the project the core developers are usually more Linux/OSX people and the beginners will tend to be more Windows people, one will have to go the extra miles and explain in terms that make sense on windows. If done correctly and documents are gene

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Gabor Szabo
Thank you, all of you for your input! I think you made very interesting and valuable points, many of which I have not thought earlier. Actually I was hoping to get the responses of beginners to understand their POV but the input of the others was also interesting. My objectives are two-fold. 1

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Raymond Wan
publisher adds quality checking, support for authors in standardizing, etc. Also, I think an author would put more care into something that is going "in print" [on paper or on-line] than something that is going into a blog. As the saying goes, "You get what you pay for..

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Raymond Wan
formulate an algorithm, I believe that would be a "success". I've also heard of repositories as a deterrent from cheating. If you make a rule to commit every day, it leaves a record of how your project [made by just you] grew. I'm not so sure how effective this is...

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Dr.Ruud
Gabor Szabo wrote: in a blog post http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/09/1251862435.html I recently asked how to make a project beginner friendly. The best answer I got was to ask the beginners. Clever :-) So let me ask it on this list. As I think think the best way to learn Perl is tor practice a

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Shawn H Corey
ibe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Goke Aruna
perl mentor to lead this for the sometimes before beginners can get it right especially for non computer scientist. Goke On 9/7/09, fudmer rieley wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 9/7/09, fudmer rieley wrote: > > From: fudmer rieley > Subject: Re: Perl projects for beginners > To:

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread fudmer rieley
--- On Mon, 9/7/09, fudmer rieley wrote: From: fudmer rieley Subject: Re: Perl projects for beginners To: beginners@perl.org Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 7:42 AM --- On Mon, 9/7/09, fudmer rieley wrote: From: fudmer rieley Subject: Re: Perl projects for beginners To: "Raymon

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread fudmer rieley
--- On Mon, 9/7/09, fudmer rieley wrote: From: fudmer rieley Subject: Re: Perl projects for beginners To: "Raymond Wan" Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 6:57 AM The need is for a problem book with real explained answers  [producing such a problem book  would be a massive u

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread fudmer rieley
--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Gabor Szabo wrote: From: Gabor Szabo Subject: Re: Perl projects for beginners To: "fudmer rieley" Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 7:20 AM please post this to the list Gabor On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:12 PM, fudmer rieley wrote: > Besides the Instructional

Re: Fwd: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Tim Bowden
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 12:13 +0300, Erez Schatz wrote: > Accidentally sent to Gabor, rather to the list: > > 2009/9/7 Gabor Szabo : > > Hi, > > > > Many projects assume a lot of background already that beginners > > might not yet have. What things would beginners

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Tim Bowden
learn Perl as you end up with the issues that Philip mentioned...issues > with software engineering which will end up distracting people. > I'd agree with this. Contributing to a project is well above a beginners level, unless you're already an accomplished programmer and looki

Fwd: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Erez Schatz
Accidentally sent to Gabor, rather to the list: 2009/9/7 Gabor Szabo : > Hi, > > Many projects assume a lot of background already that beginners > might not yet have. What things would beginners need in order to > get involved in a project? I think it all boils down to clear, s

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Raymond Wan
ave "Practice problems" at the end of the chapter. I'm sure you could start with those if you want newbies to start with something... Of course, a more Perl-oriented book would be ideal. Ray -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Matt Young
Hi Gabor. So far, in my quest to learn perl, it's been pretty easy to learn how to program basic applications, that perform simple functions using modules from CPAN. I think beginners would greatly benefit from learning how to write their OWN perl module to aid in performing a task. This

Re: Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Philip Potter
2009/9/7 Gabor Szabo : > Hi, > > in a blog post http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/09/1251862435.html > I recently asked how to make a project beginner friendly. > The best answer I got was to ask the beginners. Clever :-) > > So let me ask it on this list. > > As I think

Perl projects for beginners

2009-09-07 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, in a blog post http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/09/1251862435.html I recently asked how to make a project beginner friendly. The best answer I got was to ask the beginners. Clever :-) So let me ask it on this list. As I think think the best way to learn Perl is tor practice a lot and the best

AW: WELCOME to beginners@perl.org

2009-08-21 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Ajay Kumar asked: > Gesendet: Freitag, 21. August 2009 12:23 > An: beginners@perl.org > Betreff: RE: WELCOME to beginners@perl.org > > Hi All > > I have great issues > > 1) perl -e '$a=0.123451005;$a=sprintf("%.8f",$a);print"=$a\n";' &g

RE: WELCOME to beginners@perl.org

2009-08-21 Thread Ajay Kumar
the second one wrong result For second one result should be 5.12345101 but it is giving 5.12345100 May I know why it behabe So Perl says for commercial data it does not work for some values Let me know if you have any other function that do round of with great accuracy Thanks in advance Aj

RE: beginners Digest 15 Jan 2009 04:17:48 -0000 Issue 3649

2009-01-14 Thread srinivasa.prasad2
e and help with this regard would be very much appriciated. Awaiting for your quick response. Thanks, Srinivasa Prasad -Original Message----- From: beginners-digest-h...@perl.org [mailto:beginners-digest-h...@perl.org] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:48 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject:

Re: Beginners' books for Perl newbies using Windows?

2008-10-03 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Randal, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Raymond" == Raymond Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raymond> In academia, it is common to blame the student, but up to a point, it Raymond> might be worth asking if the teacher can teaching things Raymond> differently...especially if enough s

Re: Beginners' books for Perl newbies using Windows?

2008-10-03 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) > In my view, there are no stupid students. Only misstated pre-reqs, misaligned > goals, or *bad* instructors. No excuse for any of those. Not being too stupid might be considered a pre-req. Though usualy it's not stated this way, but rather as "must

Re: Beginners' books for Perl newbies using Windows?

2008-10-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Raymond" == Raymond Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raymond> In academia, it is common to blame the student, but up to a point, it Raymond> might be worth asking if the teacher can teaching things Raymond> differently...especially if enough students complain. As someone who has built a sol

Re: Beginners' books for Perl newbies using Windows?

2008-10-02 Thread Raymond Wan
often than not it is actually the reader that is too dense, not the documentation. That may be true, Bob, but not all documentation are the same and the perldocs seem more like a reference manual than a tutorial for beginners, at least to me. And sometimes, it helps having figures (i.e.,

RE: Beginners' books for Perl newbies using Windows?

2008-10-02 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Jenda Krynicky > From: Andrew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi > > >From my experience learning Perl, the supplied on-line documentation > > accessed through the perldoc command provides everything you need. > > This depends on your background. If you can program and just nee

Re: Beginners' books for Perl newbies using Windows?

2008-10-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Andrew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi > >From my experience learning Perl, the supplied on-line documentation > accessed through the perldoc command provides everything you need. This depends on your background. If you can program and just need to learn Perl, it's perfectl

Re: Beginners' books for Perl newbies using Windows?

2008-09-30 Thread Andrew Smith
Hi >From my experience learning Perl, the supplied on-line documentation accessed through the perldoc command provides everything you need. -- air wrote: > On 9月19日, 下午12时19分, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Pang) wrote: > >> 2008/9/19 Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> >> >>> Thank you, but

  1   2   3   4   >