Re: Perl Documentation / Learning Projects

Some of the very best resources can be found in CS departments at colleges and universities... and in many cases, those are available, on-line, to the general public and free-of-charge. Your favorite search engine can help you if you provide reasonable search strings -- perhaps, for example Perl tutorial university or the like.

And don't miss the tutorials here... nor the fact that when you have installed Perl you have, in most cases, installed a very comprehensive set of docs, many of which provide example code.

check Ln42!

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Re^2: Perl Documentation / Learning Projects by ismywb (Initiate) on Jun 27, 2014 at 23:24 UTC
Thanks ww! I have searched, but ideally, I don't like tutorials in the traditional sense. What works best for me is finding a project to do, and just doing it. Then, I can work my way through what I will need for it. I was thinking of doing a webchat script, but I feel I should get a handle on CLI before I play with CGI. And yes! perldoc is great! If the module (even from cpan)provides it, its a great resource. :) On the advise of boftx I made a perl script which finds world-writeable files under the homedir, and removes that bit. That was fairly easy, once I understood the code.	[reply]

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by ismywb (Initiate) on Jun 27, 2014 at 23:24 UTC

Thanks ww! I have searched, but ideally, I don't like tutorials in the traditional sense. What works best for me is finding a project to do, and just doing it. Then, I can work my way through what I will need for it. I was thinking of doing a webchat script, but I feel I should get a handle on CLI before I play with CGI. And yes! perldoc is great! If the module (even from cpan)provides it, its a great resource. :) On the advise of boftx I made a perl script which finds world-writeable files under the homedir, and removes that bit. That was fairly easy, once I understood the code.

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