On 09/19/2012 02:01 PM, Chad Cassady wrote: > Perl is my first language, and I started learning it September 1st.
Welcome! Perl is a great first language. > My question is, where do I go after /Learning Perl/, and more > importantly, at what point do I start telling prospective employers that > I am competent with perl? I need a rubric. My current plan is just to go > through /Intermediate Perl/ and then write something cool. /Modern Perl/ is a very good suggestion from Noah. Just a start at what to dig into next: * CPAN: http://metacpan.org and http://search.cpan.org * cpanm: using CPAN * Moose: (post)modern object system Does /Learning Perl/ cover objects? If not, Intermediate should. It's certainly worth grokking classic (non-Moose) objects in Perl. * http://www.perl.org/learn.html * perlbrew: staying up to date with new Perl releases * perldoc + Pod::Cpandoc for seamless reading of module doc you don't have installed (yet!) Hopefully that helps point you in the next direction a bit. Scratching an itch (aka writing something cool ;-) is often a good way to explore a language and tends to find more motivation than, say, trolling the bug tracker for random bugs to fix. Cheers, Thomas _____________________________________________________________ Seattle Perl Users Group Mailing List POST TO: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/spug-list MEETINGS: 3rd Tuesdays WEB PAGE: http://seattleperl.org/
