Re^2: Time-proven Perl courses?

I down voted you

And then you posted anonymously. It's unthinkable to me that some people dont have the courage to put their name to a criticism.

I dont think it's unreasonable though that the OP would want to take a course to learn a language - maybe he wants to learn how to do things the right way from the start rather than fumbling his way along. Maybe he wants a good solid grounding and introduction to what Perl can do and how it can be done, before he then takes that learned knowledge and goes and looks at perldoc and hums along from there.

Sure, it might not be the cheapest way, but we dont all learn in the same manner...

Good luck to max-bklyn - welcome to the world of Perl.

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Re^3: Time-proven Perl courses? by jhourcle (Prior) on Sep 09, 2005 at 10:56 UTC
And, there are many different learning styles -- some people learn best from examples, some people need pictures, and some people do best when things are explained orally. Once in a while, you need to get up to speed very quickly, and taking a class doesn't give you as much of an opportunity to procrastinate. You also have someone there to ask questions if you get confused (and face to face communication is much more effective than posting on a message board) I think it's admirable to try to further your knowledge -- it's even better if you can manage to get your work to foot the bill for it.	[reply]

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Re^3: Time-proven Perl courses?
by jhourcle (Prior) on Sep 09, 2005 at 10:56 UTC

And, there are many different learning styles -- some people learn best from examples, some people need pictures, and some people do best when things are explained orally.

Once in a while, you need to get up to speed very quickly, and taking a class doesn't give you as much of an opportunity to procrastinate. You also have someone there to ask questions if you get confused (and face to face communication is much more effective than posting on a message board)

I think it's admirable to try to further your knowledge -- it's even better if you can manage to get your work to foot the bill for it.

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