Re: Perl Training online courses?

I'm afraid I have no knowledge of perl training - whether on-line or not - so I'm afraid I have nothing to offer on that front and I would also be interested, from the point of view of perl evangelism, in the points of view of any other venerable perl sages out there.

That being said, I came to perl from a systems programming/shell scripting background and IMO, an in-depth knowledge of regular expressions and shell scripting have proved invaluable in my, sadly all too slow, adoption of the language. I'm a firm believer in horses for courses and so I now still frequently exercise my shell scripting skills - alongside my, hopefully improving perl, skills dependant on the job in hand.

I would recommend, in due course, obtaining the intermediate, advanced and 'references & objects' perl books to sit alongside the camel book on your bookshelf - or google for a publicly available perl CD bookshelf as I did (once I'd already bought the books).

You've already done the best thing you could by joining this forum :-) I wish such a thing were available years ago - all that time I could've saved (..and probably spent in the pub:-))

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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Re^2: Perl Training online courses? by matze77 (Friar) on Nov 29, 2008 at 21:02 UTC
Thank you and all others for your replies. Anyway i think i give the oreilly school a try, it is 7 days you can test it ... I absoluletely agree with your praise for this site despite i am only a few days here but already think this forum invaluable, never seen such a well designed site, with so many experts around. The administrators aka gods do really a great job here too, thank you if you ever read this :-). I purchased "Learning Perl", waiting for delivery, after that worked through i try further books, like you mentioned (The documentation perldoc is really good but a little overwhelming for a beginner like me its not so easy to get an overview ;-)). Thanks for your advice in books too.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl Training online courses? by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Nov 30, 2008 at 11:21 UTC
Absolutely no problem ... it's what this site (and AFAICT, the perl community at large) is all about. A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]