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in reply to Idea Generation for New Programmer

Like you, I am fairly new to Perl. I find that the exercises that have been most useful for me sprang from other interests in my life. My hobby of quilting has led to several quilt-related perl scripts, which have required me to seek out new perl knowledge. I'm not sure how many other people will use my scripts, but I enjoy creating and learning from them.

So my advice is to let ideas for perl projects come to you away from the computer - and then you can assimilate your hobbies into perl!