In my experience, having a project, especially one that needs to be done, is vastly more motivating. There is a certain lack of being able to select objectives when there are no parameters.
Teal > > >I'm forever-trying to get myself to just sit and read "Learning Perl" in >its entirety, but keep getting bored or distracted. A blog for likeminded >people (impatient?) may be helpful for new users that don't quite learn in >the same way as most others. > >I recently asked a friend and collegue how he got into a language (Cobol; >sorry if that's supposed to be all-caps...). He said that the trick was >to come up with things he wanted to do; projects, etc... > >Does anyone else out there fall into this same kind of category? I guess >that would be the one where you're already pretty smart when it comes to >technology and how it interoperates, but are simply too impatient to read >through 1077 pages (that's the length of my "Core Python Programming" >book). > >...or is it just simple laziness on behalf of the learner? > >After going back and re-reading the original message real quick, methinks >that this would fall under the "Ugly" category... > >Blah... > > >brant williams >FCAA CDCA 20BC 3925 D634 F5C4 7420 6784 4DEB 6002 > > > >On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Aaron Leonard wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:51:45 -0500 >> From: Aaron Leonard <[email protected]> >> To: Garrett Goebel <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Kc] We Are Iron Man >> >> I hadn't heard of it, but have thought for years now that Perl is way short >> on good blogs. Or even poor blogs for that matter. I follow about 30 >> Oracle blogs and 10 sysadmin blogs. The only Perl blog I ever liked hasn't >> been updated in a long, long time... Soooo, something coming from this >> challenge would be super-refreshing to see. >> >> Aaron >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Garrett Goebel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Don't know how many of you have read Matt Trout's "We Are Iron Man" >>> challenge. In short, it is a call for Perl programmers to get blogging >>> and sharing their Perl experience: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. >>> >>> I've been meaning to dig back into Perl and Perl6. So what the hell? Why >>> not? >>> >>> http://ergoletterbag.blogspot.com/ >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> Garrett >>> _______________________________________________ >>> kc mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc >>> >> >_______________________________________________ >kc mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
