I've been very lucky, and my company supports new programmers. We're a very small company, and the need for Perl arose, I was the only person who had any exposure at all, and that wasn't much. I was going to "fill the gap" until we could find more experienced Perl people. Guess what - we couldn't find any!

I learned from every source I could find, including the kind Monks here, from books and web sources. The one thing I couldn't find was a class. I'm located in Connecticut and the only local class I could find was cancelled three times because I was the only person who registered.

My company believes in education and is more than willing to pay for classes, and encourages team participation. It has been almost a year, and we now have a team with one of the best Perl Programmers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. And the best part is that he is willing to share his knowledge, explain what he does and how and why he does it. I am still the nubee, but I'm improving. With his mentoring, I've learned a tremendous amount!

If more companies were willing to take the combined approach of education and teams, I believe we would have more enthusiastic, good Perl Progrmmers.

In reply to Re: Where are future senior programmers coming from? by xdbd063
in thread Where are future senior programmers coming from? by tilly

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