On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 02:11:38 Slick wrote: > Sorry for all my questions. > > What do you guys do to practice? Do you practice one script over and over > again? Do you read differnt scripts and figure out what is happening in > each one? Do you think of ideas to do things, then make the script for > that?
What I'm doing to practice is not primarily with scripts, but rather with distributions of Perl code (so-called CPAN modules or packages). See: http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/ Most of the scripts I put on CPAN are just very small wrappers for a more complete Perl .pm file with an API that processes the command line. Something like: <<<<<<<<<<<<< use strict; use warnings; use App::MyApp; my $app = App::MyApp->new(); $app->run(); >>>>>>>>>>>>> This facilitates testing and also allow writing something like {{{ perl -MApp::MyApp -e 'run()'; }}} which overcomes many problems. I also read many Perl blogs, books, chat on IRC in Perl-related channels, etc. And I also read other people's code when I need to learn something about a CPAN module I'm using or have started working on. It's not always the best code possible, but as "Joel on Software" mentions here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html "It’s harder to read code than to write it." - so it's more challenging and brings more benefit. Some people read other people's code for enlightenment or for fun: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-il/message/3576 Other people pointed you to http://perl-begin.org/ . I should note that most of my time is probably spent writing HTML, CSS, etc. using Website Meta Language ( http://thewml.org/ ), Latemp ( http://web-cpan.berlios.de/latemp/ ), DocBook/XML ( http://www.docbook.org/ ), and various XML grammars I've created. It's not that I don't enjoy writing Perl code (or code in other programming languages), just that I also love writing and blogging. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Any tips here would be appriciated. > Jason H. Owens > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Parody on "The Fountainhead" - http://shlom.in/towtf Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
