my strategy when learning has always been to pick a small project that has to do with what you do and just launch into it ... the first little perl endeavor i undertook was to update the ip address for the e-mail post office at work in the windows registry, then i launched into parsing logs, which led me into database access, etc. each leads you into picking up something new, and you've got the satisfaction of actually getting something done. personally, i'm amazed at the people who can actually read through all of the perldoc pages first, i'm far too impatient for that. i have been know to re-invent the wheel as a result, but what the heck, at least i know i can do it.

In reply to Re: Best Approach to Learn Perl for a Non Programmer by ralphie
in thread Best Approach to Learn Perl for a Non Programmer by dru145

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.