That's it!! I'm gonna do it!!

[Danger Fan]

Well, I know a little perl. Not too much. I'm pretty much a beginner. I've written a few small programs, but nothing huge. Perl is a language I really want to learn.

I actually have time to myself this weekend. The g/f is gone, and I'm taking care of her 8 week old kitten, so I probably won't be going anywhere. So what am I going to do?

I'm going to learn perl. I want to become an intermediate perl hacker. From there I can become an advanced perl hacker.

So if anyone has any good programs that I can write (for someone with beginner/intermediate perl hacking skill) let me know.

Also, if you know of any good sites for learning perl (other than perl.com/perlmonks.com/learn.perl.com/so-on-and-so-forth), let me know also.

Thank you for listening,
Future intermediate perl hacker,
Danger Fan

[inkedmn]

if i were you, i'd start translating the examples on CCAE (the one's in other languages) into Perl. maybe ask in #perl for ideas :).

Good luck my friend!

[kmj]

Welcome to cf.net, Danger Fan! Enjoy learning perl; it can be quite fun.

[Danger Fan]

Originally posted by kmj
Welcome to cf.net, Danger Fan! Enjoy learning perl; it can be quite fun.

thank you kmj.

inkedmn: That's about all I've done....translating some of your python examples into perl. It's fun. I think I'll do more :D

[inkedmn]

danger, try this...

write an address book program that interfaces with a mysql database :) (it's not as hard as it sounds, TRUST me)

Just do like 3-4 fields (name, email, aim, etc.), all CLI.

we can work on it side-by-side, me in python and you in perl

whaddaya think? :D

oh, and if you don't know much SQL, i can help you with some basic commands/syntax


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/me wonders if this wouldn't make a decent programming challenge for the scripting language folks... :)
anybody have any feedback on this?

[Danger Fan]

inkedmn: sounds good. I'll probably start this weekend. I've looked a little at the DBI module. It looks easy.

oh, and about the SQL: I'm going for a concentration in databases, so I've got the SQL covered :D

[inkedmn]

sweet :)

maybe i'll be asking YOU some SQL questions ;)

[Danger Fan]

Originally posted by inkedmn
sweet :)

maybe i'll be asking YOU some SQL questions ;)


ask away! maybe I'll be able to answer a few too ;)