Hello. I have never coded before so please be gentle.

Today I decided to try and give coding a go, so I went tot he bookstore and (probably naively) picked up a copy of the book 'Learning Perl'. In order to complete some of the exercises which the book sets I need to code in Perl. I am a complete novice and had no idea how to go about doing this. I have watched a few Youtube videos and scoured some websites and this is what I have done so far:

Dowloaded and installed Xcode

Downloaded and installed Atom as a text editor

Downloaded and installed PerlBrew

After installing PerlBrew using the  \curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash in Terminal app I was notified that I need to make an amendment to my bash profile. However I cannot seem to find this file.

I am completely lost here, not only around finding this bash profile but also about understanding what a compiler/text editor/perlbrew all are and how they work together

I would really appreciate it if anyone has the time to explain to me what the heck I am actually doing and whether I am going about it in the correct way

Thanks

In reply to Complete novice in need of guidance by SerpSomal

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