jaggoraj:

You *must* practice to get good at it and to learn enough syntax for it to feel natural. So if you can't motivate yourself to create your own projects, you'll have to either (a) find a way to get the motivation (such as writing code to solve puzzles, if you like), (b) find small job-related tasks you can automate (such as filling out (parts of) paperwork, generating spreadsheets or such), or (c) re-evaluate whether you're really suited to a programming job.

I don't mean to be harsh, but unless you can get into the groove of things, then you're going to find that learning programming on your own will be difficult. The best programmers don't learn programming to get a good job--rather they trip across programming at some point, and they just can't stop. If you must force yourself to start, you may find programming unrewarding.

...roboticus

In reply to Re: How to get going with perl? by roboticus
in thread How to get going with perl? by jaggoraj

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