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Hi Gabor. So far, in my quest to learn perl, it's been pretty easy to learn how to program basic applications, that perform simple functions using modules from CPAN. I think beginners would greatly benefit from learning how to write their OWN perl module to aid in performing a task. This would probably teach them a lot of what it would be like working on an actual project, while giving the beginner in actually using perl, and not perl modules. I know that I would probably greatly benefit from this, as my only experience with perl so far has been downloading cpan modules, and reading the synopsis in the documentation. I'd like to get involved in projects, but it's really complicated to get started. I could never get passed the 'get the sourcecode' step, because I'd have to grab it from version control and I just don't know how to do that at all - especially on windows where there is sometimes a large lack of guidance. Even comitting to a module would be a difficult thing because I have no idea how all of this CPAN module testing works, or how to write tests for my own code. Beginners should learn about creating modules, and then learn how to contribute to other people's modules. I've just 'finished' the Learning Perl book, and I'm going to try to get my hands on intermediate perl sometime soon. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Gabor Szabo<szabgab@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > in a blog post http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/09/1251862435.html > I recently asked how to make a project beginner friendly. > The best answer I got was to ask the beginners. Clever :-) > > So let me ask it on this list. > > As I think think the best way to learn Perl is tor practice a lot > and the best place to practice is an open source project I wonder > how can open source project become more beginner friendly? > > Many projects assume a lot of background already that beginners > might not yet have. What things would beginners need in order to > get involved in a project? > > regards > Gabor > http://szabgab.com/blog.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscribe@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-help@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- -MatthewThread Previous | Thread Next