Re: Does anyone need a newbie to help testing or documenting or even writing code?

Hi Sine, I would say you are aspiring too much for a beginner. Do no spend your time for perl community activities when you have to tread a long way in the course of learning perl. Buy a good book on perl and go through all the pages, try out all examples, implement each example in your own way by using already learnt features. This may take a year or more. It is not so easy and require perseverance. Best wishes. Anil PS: Simon Cozen's "Beginning Perl" is an extremely good book. Available online in the form of pdf documents.

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Re^2: Does anyone need a newbie to help testing or documenting or even writing code? by blazar (Canon) on Feb 25, 2007 at 11:03 UTC
Hi Sine, I would say you are aspiring too much for a beginner. Although your node got downvoted, I second that: while it's remarkably good that the OP wants to improve his Perl skills by contributing free help on existing projects, it's almost certainly a little bit premature as of a very beginner. Sometimes good will is not enough. He may want to improve his skills in some other way first, e.g. like GrandFather suggested, and then he would be ready to further improve them the way he's thought of in a manner that would be productive both for him and for the projects themselves. IMHO that would be a more efficient use of his good will; otherwise the attempt may even result in frustration...	[reply]

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Re^2: Does anyone need a newbie to help testing or documenting or even writing code?
by blazar (Canon) on Feb 25, 2007 at 11:03 UTC

Hi Sine, I would say you are aspiring too much for a beginner.

Although your node got downvoted, I second that: while it's remarkably good that the OP wants to improve his Perl skills by contributing free help on existing projects, it's almost certainly a little bit premature as of a very beginner. Sometimes good will is not enough. He may want to improve his skills in some other way first, e.g. like GrandFather suggested, and then he would be ready to further improve them the way he's thought of in a manner that would be productive both for him and for the projects themselves. IMHO that would be a more efficient use of his good will; otherwise the attempt may even result in frustration...

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