The other day in a class I was teaching as I was showing how to copy a file using File::Copy someone asked (as that happens always) how could he find out the answer alone to this and similar questions. I pointed to various sources such as
perldoc -q but it has no anse to this question
perldoc perlfunc obviously this quesion is not answered there
www.perldoc.com is currently down but even if it comes back,
is searching a web site the right anser ?
search.cpan.org but that's probably too much for these questions
I pointed to vairous mailing lists for beginners and even to PerlMonks.
Still they seemed not to be satisfied with the answer.
What do you ppl. tell them, how to learn more and get answers to such questions ?
Do you know how such questions are answered by beginners of other languages ?
Gabor
