I need to solve a real world problem.

My first Perl project was to analyze log files produced by the FlexLM license product for usage of some expensive CAD software we use. We needed to know if we were overlicensed on some products, or about to be underlicensed on some others. I learned a ton. In fact I joined Perlmonks shortly after starting it and quickly running into my Perl-noob limitations.

It was a real-world problem, although not a big one. It did turn out to be harder than I first anticipated. It's a piece of code I still work on from time to time, because I've let other people at other companies use it and they've told me "It would be nice if it would do X...".

Find something to automate. Anything. To paraphrase from the book of James: "Theory without practice is dead".

In reply to Re: Learning by Doing by husker
in thread Learning by Doing by jweed

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