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--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Perl projects for beginners
To: "fudmer rieley" <southofmexico@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 7:20 AM
please post this to the list
Gabor
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:12 PM, fudmer rieley<southofmexico@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Besides the Instructionally designed Q and Ans server I suggested in a prior
> quote.
> I am a Perl beginner.
> The most difficult thing for me was to get the computer to work with the
> example scripts, few error messages and no hint at why the short scripts
> were not working.
>
> Next the value in Perl is not obvious.
>
> The basics in the books are not all the same, they look like the knowledge
> of the book writer instead of the knowledge requisite? There must be some
> logical progression that makes a good Perl programmer.. There must be some
> things that need to be committed to memory, or nearly so, and other things
> that can be acquired on an as needed basis, but which is which?
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 9/7/09, Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com>
> Subject: Perl projects for beginners
> To: beginners@perl.org
> Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 4:06 AM
>
> 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
>
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