Re: RFC: Perl Learning Plan

Hello Leitz and welcome to the monastery and to the wonderful world of Perl!

you already have collected good suggestions and your plan seems sane, just some other thoughts from my part.

Learning is not a linear process: take other resources as side companion in your journey and they might stimulate even more your will to learn.

I liked a lot the Perl Cookbook even if it is very old, because its recipe approach: you will get a lot of inspiration glancing it while following your own learning plan.

Also get your free copy of Modern Perl Book and give it some sparse read to confirm your skill. It is not intended for beginners but show you a fresh and modern look to the language with most up to date idioms (you can learn from old perl examples because perl is highly backward compatible, but you must write modern form of them :)

You can be also interested in some link of my small bibliotheca

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

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Re^2: RFC: Perl Learning Plan by Leitz (Scribe) on Jun 28, 2021 at 12:19 UTC
I have struggled through several setbacks, but have gotten myself back on track. To help rebuild enthusiasm, I got a copy of "Modern Perl" and am almost finished with the first read. It is a great book! My next step is to start back at the beginning of the book and work through each example and topic. That helps me learn, and pushes the understanding deeper into my brain. Chronicler: The Domici War (domiciwar.net) General Ne'er-do-well (github.com/LeamHall)	[reply]
Re^3: RFC: Perl Learning Plan by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jun 29, 2021 at 08:38 UTC
Great to have you back Leitz! I find it fun (and helps with motivation) to define a specific arbitrary problem and post my solution/s here at Perl Monks, inviting others to join in and/or give feedback. For a simple one to get you started, write a function to reverse a string of words. For example, given an input string of: `" one two three four "` [download] your function should produce: `"four three two one"` [download] That is, the input string reversed word by word, with a single space between each word and with no leading or trailing space. You may assume the input string consists only of alphabetic characters, spaces and tabs. When you're done, take a look at the many instructive replies at: Five Ways to Reverse a String of Words (C#, Perl 5, Perl 6, Ruby, Haskell) ... wow, just remembered this challenge provoked a Perl 6 reply from The Larry himself (aka TimToady)! Some more examples of this approach: Rosetta Dispatch Table (Interview Question) Tales from writing a RPN evaluator in Perl 5, Perl 6 and Haskell High Performance Game of Life Conway's classic Game of Life was my favourite, I became a bit obsessed with it - being a meatier problem, it took way more time than the others. Sadly, John Horton Conway, the inventor of the Game of Life, died last year of COVID-19.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: RFC: Perl Learning Plan by Leitz (Scribe) on Jun 29, 2021 at 14:16 UTC
eyepopslikeamosquito, it is good to be back! Thank you for the welcome. I tend to pick a task that I need doing, it provides motivation. Since I write fiction and play role-playing games, most of my tools revolve around that. For example, my current challenge is to build a set of modules and an app that can go on CPAN. The tool will collate sections of a book, do some formatting, and produce grade-level and word count reports. There is an aspect of "My personal work is part of my resume", so I've started another meditation to push my personal work to be even better. Chronicler: The Domici War (domiciwar.net) General Ne'er-do-well (github.com/LeamHall)	[reply]