Decide upon a product and create your own development project. Look around of what already exists. Decide to do something that noone has done (well) so far. Then start your own development.

I have to disagree.

If there's a project you want to do, and you want to start from scratch -- then by all means, that's your perogotive. But in the case of this poster the goal is to learn more perl, and to become more marketable with perl skills.

There are already lots of perl projects out there that you can contribute to. Working on an existing project can have all of the benefits Biker described (something that intrests you, something you can point at when you sell yourself, something you can be proud of) and it has the added benefits of letting you see other peoples code, and helping you learn how to work colabratively with other people on software (things most people don't learn working on small scripts, which are frequently more marketable then just knowing a lot about perl)

In reply to Re: Re: the next step by hossman
in thread the next step by emilford

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