Much obliged for your kind remarks, naChoz. Though, when I look at Where and how... again, it seems to be handling more the "where" part than the "how" part. This thread answers that better.

Following the links in Where and how... is just what I am doing now and it helps me quite a bit. By now I can take a look at (new) nodes in japhs, Snippets Section, Code Catacombs and Craft and see if I understand them. If I don't, I take my links and books until I get a grasp (or more).

When I learned Perl the first time, I had to make scripts to read logs, to handle forms, to send emails, to access a database (mmm, what did we start with, mSQL?), to keep and show statistics. Difficult but fun.

Having a goal helps a lot. For me, at the moment one of my main goals is to build a web shop, user and product database, moderated discussion forum ad so on. Not by just take the "easy" road right away and take one of the many modules and examples that are around, because now I can't distinguish between rubbish and pearly bits, so maybe later.

I've got no questions yet for Seekers of Perl Wisdom, but there's a lot to learn there too. Answers to most questions I could ask can be found there, after searching just a tiny while.

By the way, that's often the right answer to questions that are asked here. Search and find and read and learn and experiment. Search first, ask later.

In reply to Re: Re: Learning Perl? by woolfy
in thread Learning Perl? by katch

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