The Japanese site is likely an exception*, but Uri's point is that we can't extrapolate that to most of the other sites that try to "teach Perl". In the past I've looked at some on YouTube and ShowMeDo and Uri's definitely right about the YouTube ones. (Even I could spot problems and I consider myself a newbie.)
*Most Japanese who I've met are very concerned with "style and beauty" (which is a trait that many others in the world do not seem to have. Given what you stated about yourself and what you asked for, I'd recommend you hire Uri as a "coach" for some short period (like a few hours at a time as you need tutoring), then both go to YAPC::NA::2010 in Columbus, OH during the summer, and just "learn by doing" everything else. Since you live in Cambridge, MA, you might want to attend the Boston.pm monthly meetings (2nd tuesday of the month, I think) at MIT just to meet some other people and learn more. Regarding YAPC, it's an "inexpensive Perl conference" usually about 3 days at some inexpensive venue (typically a college campus) each summer. The cost us usually dirt-cheap and the exposure to knowledgeable people is very high. -- Bob On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Uri Guttman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> "HI" == Hideki Ishii <[email protected]> writes: HI> ... The most helpful pages to me was http://www.kent-web.com/perl/ ... ... > well, i can't judge that site because i don't speak japanese. but i will > strongly differ with your view about learning perl from web tutorials. i > have seen dozens of them and reviewed many on usenet. 99% of them stink > to high heaven. they are full of mistakes, bad perl, old perl, and are > written by people who are self deluded into thinking they know how to > teach, write and know perl. ... > -- Bob Clancy 9 Lives Software Engineering Website: http://agiletester.net Blog: http://AgileTesterDotNet.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
