Hi all, On Friday 07 May 2010 07:52:42 Ben Tilly wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Laura Bethard <betha...@nber.org> wrote: > [...] > > > I'm not sure if the 3-day will cover what I need to know, and the 5-day > > is pricey. I'd prefer a traditional class over an online one, but might > > consider online with a solid recommendation. Anyone have any advice? > > [...] > > My advice. Bookmark > http://perldoc.perl.org/index-functions-by-cat.html. Don't try to > read it. Now read through http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/. > Try to follow what it says but don't worry about really mastering it. > Then on a Unix system do > > perl -MCPAN -e 'install Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial' >
In addition to that, we have been working on a comprehensive site for Perl beginners here: http://perl-begin.org/ . It contains links to many resources and up-to-date information, but unfortunately has received too little recognition and mainstream awareness. I still feel it is lengths ahead of anything else I've seen online in their current state. > This will lead you through a bunch of questions and will install a > *ton* of stuff. (If you're not happy with your answers you can > control C out then try again.) If you run into problems on your > installation (which unfortunately is quite possible) then you can ask > for help either here or at http://www.perlmonks.org/. (You can also > ask at stackoverflow. I haven't paid attention, so that might have a > decent Perl community by now. Or might not. Perlmonks has a built up > community and history though.) I'm not too big into Stack Overflow (I'm using it primarily to get answers to questions, which I sometimes have - and am not a karma whore), but I think it is OK as far as getting help with Perl is concerned. At least brian d foy is there and some other people. perlmonks reportedly can get a bit hostile, so one will need to be mentally prepared. I've skipped over Laura's mentioning of the fact that she needed to write web- based frontends. I really should get to updating http://perl-begin.org/uses/web/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Portability Libraries - http://shlom.in/port-libs God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
