I think you will find a lot of eager support here, if you get yourself an account and make it known that you are a young person learning to program.

Some of the benefits of having an account here include:

• your own user page, where you can tell people a bit about yourself
• access to the chatterbox where you can get immediate answers to your questions and get to know other people interested in programming and Perl.

For more information on setting up an account, see

• Creating an account on PerlMonks
• PerlMonks FAQ

Best, beth

Note: I don't think there are sign-up restrictions for minors at PM. But if there are, you may want to ask a parent to open the account on your behalf. Also: PM user pages show up on Google - so never share identifying information on a user page (email/snail mail addresses, telephone numbers, your full name, and so on). Staying safe is very important.

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