Hi all, A few months ago before I started studying for the LSAT, I was trying to learn perl using Beginning Perl, and the expertise of users on this list. Well, that test prep put my perl learning on hold, and now that it's done, I'm back to working on my project.
Anyway, the point of this email is to alert those out there that want to learn perl, and find that learning from a course is much easier than a from a book, or at least a syllabus or book styled as a course, I proffer two websites I stumbled on last night: Summer Perl course for HS students at Brown U. http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/dg/summer04/ I browsed this site and thought it was great. It is by a Ph.D. student that wants to be a prof, and he is teaching a summer course at Brown. Though I am not sure it is meant to be free (however, I presume that he wouldn't publish it without password protection if he really wanted to limit access to his paying students), but it is there, and seems to be pretty good. I like it at least. Perl for Text Processing http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/paul/perlcourse.html This is another one that I think is by a prof in the UK. It has a text processing focus, hence the title, and is really what I want out of perl anyway, so I'd certainly use it. The caveat emptor here is that in the 12 lessons, I don't think he advise use strict; until lesson 10. The caveat emptor for both is that, while I like to think I'm smart and educated, I'm not trained in computer science, but rather the science of the political kind, and therefore, can't say, with just a browsing of the offerings, that they teach good programming practices. I can say that I'm going to look at them more closely and possibly utilize them in the coming weeks. Apologies for the loquaciousness, but I prefer to make easy things hard, and hard things harder. :-D I hope this helps someone. -stu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
