I just noticed a pretty inexpensive way to take a good online "zero to Perl" sort of course. If you have a safari.oreilly.com subscription, you can go here now and play it <http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780137013142>! It teaches how to write "procedural" (non OO) Perl code and teaches the idioms that you will find that good programmers typically use. It introduces CPAN in the last lesson but does not teach OO Perl or how to write modules. I just went through all of the lessons here as review. It was quite good (in my opinion). The instructor (Peter Scott) has written two Perl books (one on fixing legacy code and the other on debugging) so he knows what he is talking about.
-- Bob On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Bob Clancy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
