First of all, this document is nice: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
It's a bit ruthless, but what just happened on this list is described there perfectly. As for training - I taught a few basic Perl courses at my workplace and i always began with introducing the students to the perl* documents, *strongly* urging them to get very familiar with the important ones (perlfaq*, perlfunc, perlop, perldata, perlsyn, perlre etc.). I explained in detail how to find them (`man', `perldoc', ActiveState's HTML etc.). I also introduced them to comp.lang.perl.* and the Camel book or course. Luckily, the people i taught didn't need an introduction to Google. When people email me with questions, i try to point them to perldiag and the relevant perl* manpage instead of just explaining what to do - it usually works well (but most of those people also happen to be my personal friends). On 5/17/06, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/17/06, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is for my carrer. Please......... > > The problem is obvoiusly an artificial one, and sounds like homework, > but if this is for your career then I guess it's actually a test set by > a potential Perl employer, who want to check that you can have the skill > to do this exercise before offering you a job. Being able to go to the *right* forum and get help is a huge skil. > > So anybody who "helps" you by providing you with the answer is assisting > you deceive the employer and get a job you are blatantly not qualified > for. That's downright dishonest. Why on earth do you expect that > somebody would want to "help" you in this way? > > Smylers While I agree with you I would like to note that, unfortunately most of the people I see around would not know how to or would fear to ask a question on a mailinig list. This is a separate topic, but in my classes I noticed that a very large proportion of the students would not use any forum or mailing list to ask a question. I guess this is somewhere in the 80-90% range of the students. I am talking about engineers, QA people etc. Usually I explain them about the forums and mailing lists but usually I have a feeling of lack of interest or lack of trust or similar. What is your experience? How do you introduce al these "tools" to get help? Gabor
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