It might be a good idea to subscribe to the Win32-admin list at ActiveState
or the Perl-NTAdmins list at Topica.com. You'll definitely want to set up
some rules in Outlook to handle all that mail, but the questions and answers
in those groups have been invaluable in getting the most out of Perl for NT
for me.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Beaman
To: Chas Owens
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 4/30/02 5:17 AM
Subject: RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition
Great advice! Any more ideas (NT specific)? As I've stated before, I'm
learning this on NT and my reason for learning Perl was to play around
on NT and get a better idea of how it works. I've gotten the Roth NT
Admin with Perl book and I'm browsing this (I can't wait until I'm
savvy enough to start with that book!!). I really like playing around
with the extensions but I think I need to get the basics down before I
get too deep. Thanks!
-----Original Message-----
From: Chas Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:43 PM
To: Anthony Beaman
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 15:45, Anthony Beaman wrote:
> Bingo! I agree and I think that's my problem with all
> of this. I think that the documentation pages can be
over
> a newbie's (myself) head. For example, the Win32
extensions
> are great and I'm really getting into them but I have
> problems sometimes getting them to run in my codes.
Good
> advice, also, about the books. Personally, I'm on NT
and
> am moving to Unix or Linux later (after I learn C and
> Assembly), so I'm using the Learning Perl on Win32.
Then
> I'm going to use the Camel book. Any advice on getting
the
> most out of the 2 Learning Perl books? (or shall I
repost
> this question, i.e., a new thread?) Thanks!
>
The most important thing is to start using the language.
Perl is a very
forgiving language in this regard. You can't do very
many useful things
with C in the first few weeks, but in Perl you can be
doing things like
parsing text files in under a week. Choosing a pet
project can be hard
so here are a few (not so useful) projects:
1. Re-implement your favorite command line tool (TYPE,
MORE, DIR, etc.
for DOS based people or cat, less, ls, etc. for Unix
based people).
2. Write an application to summarize a text file (size,
average word
length, average line length, average words per line,
common words,
etc.).
3. Pick one of the various homework assignments people
invariably post
to this list (you can recognize them by the question "I
want to do X.
How do I do it in Perl?" without any evidence to how
that the questioner
has tried some method of solving the problem
4. In fact, just choose any problem described on this
list that you
think you know how to do or think you may be able to
learn to do. After
trying to solve it on your own look at the advice (if
any) we gave to
the questioner and see how that might improve your
solution.
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