Shawn H Corey wrote:
Uri Guttman wrote:
newbies will never learn it unless coerced into
doing so.
I disagree. If they don't have the curiosity to read all they can, then
perhaps a future in computer programming is not an ideal career path for
them.
That's somewhat of a harsh statement... In [almost] every career, you
have to keep learning or else those fresh graduates will beat you very
quickly. It's not just a matter of finger pointing and saying "well,
they should have the curiosity to read"; but what they read should also
be "interesting" ... at least interesting enough to keep them going.
Perldoc is somewhat hard to get into...but it's the manual for a
programming language, so that's expected; I don't think having pages to
color and draw on would be a feasible idea for the next update. :-)
Some problems facing newbies:
* They may not know perldoc even exists.
* They may feel overwhelm by it size. It's hard to find one specific
tree in a continent-wide forest.
* They may feel lost and alone. Community resources like this mailing
list give a sense of belonging and enhances their confidence to try new
And #4, perldoc and anything like perldoc is competing with things like
Google. Some people want to find the Perldoc pages; others might rather
find a blog or a newsgroup posting discussing the problem -- everyone
learns differently.
Of course, in this case, Google probably can't search for $| since its
made up of punctuation marks...
Ray
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