If what you have said is true then you seem intelligent enough to take the forthcoming advice....
Buy a book called "Learning Perl" by Randal Schwartz and take a day or two off of work to work through it. You will learn a great deal from it not only about perl but programming in general. Also, you will want to by the camel book at the same time to use as a reference to the builtin subs and as a guide as you progress. Believe me I turned those two books into a career as a sysadmin coming from a very different field (as you seem to have as well). Hope this helps. - Roman ________________________________ From: Laura Bethard <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, May 6, 2010 4:16:27 PM Subject: [Boston.pm] Newbie question Hi all, With apologies - I'm a pastry chef turned publishing admin turned database admin. I have no formal computer training, but I taught myself to use MySQL and Unix as part of my current position. Now the IT department would like me to be able to write Perl scripts and web front-ends for the database. I don't know a thing about Perl and am somewhat intimidated by it. It seems like I could do a lot more damage just aimlessly messing with it. I was looking for an extension class but am having trouble finding something in the price range my company will cover. IEEE had a promising class but it was cancelled, and the only other two I could find were: http://www.open-source-training-courses.com/Courses/Perl-Scripting-Classes.htm http://www.open-source-training-courses.com/Courses/Perl-Programming-CGI-Scripting.htm I'm not sure if the 3-day will cover what I need to know, and the 5-day is pricey. I'd prefer a traditional class over an online one, but might consider online with a solid recommendation. Anyone have any advice? Thanks in advance! Laura Bethard Publications/Working Papers National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 588-1403 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
