Re: Structured Learning of Perl, Important or Not?

Since i am in an similar situation ( i got no child so far), but i know how hard it is after 9-10 hours of working to kick myself to do some perl learning (not mentioning the problem its harder to concentrate after a long day then when you are fresh in the morning).

Time "Problem": For myself this is working. I spent most time when my girlfriend is either "sleeping" (late at night) or when she is watching some "woman soap" on TV. But i find it better if i am completely uninterrupted (late at night mostly :-(). (Luckily she supports me and does more housework when i am learning which is very kind ...)

Job perspectives: Lately i am watching for job ads and yes there is often "web programming" or explicitily coding skills in Perl are demanded, even for system administration ...

The approach: Personally I try to do small portions every day, but its sometimes better if you can stay for a few hours on a project and dont have to relearn, finding where you stopped last, this costs me much time, but that may differ for you.

I think you already got some book good book like Learning Perl? Or watched the videos?

Perl Videos?
hth and happy hacking
MH

btw: I used code tags for formatting i found no other way ... If this is wrong, and you have a better solution Time to dig deeper into perl and let those nasty "br" tags be implemented automatically for my posts after X characters ;-) ...

Comment on Re: Structured Learning of Perl, Important or Not?

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: [OT] formatting tags... by almut (Canon) on Dec 03, 2008 at 12:59 UTC
btw: I used code tags for formatting i found no other way ... Simply wrap your normal text paragraphs in `<p>...</p>` tags (and use `<br>` only when you have a good reason). In this case, the browser will do the formatting in a way that optimally fits the window width, etc.... For example, the markup for your "Job perspectives" paragraph would've been: `<p> Job perspectives:<br /> Lately i am watching for job ads and yes there is often "web programmi +ng" or explicitily coding skills in Perl are demanded, even for system administration ... </p>` [download] which renders as Job perspectives: Lately i am watching for job ads and yes there is often "web programming" or explicitily coding skills in Perl are demanded, even for system administration ... HTH. Cheers.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

Replies are listed 'Best First'.

Re^2: [OT] formatting tags...
by almut (Canon) on Dec 03, 2008 at 12:59 UTC

btw: I used code tags for formatting i found no other way ...

Simply wrap your normal text paragraphs in <p>...</p> tags (and use <br> only when you have a good reason). In this case, the browser will do the formatting in a way that optimally fits the window width, etc....

For example, the markup for your "Job perspectives" paragraph would've been:

<p> Job perspectives:<br />
Lately i am watching for job ads and yes there is often "web programmi
+ng"
or explicitily coding skills  in Perl are demanded, even for system
administration ... </p>
[download]

which renders as

Job perspectives:
Lately i am watching for job ads and yes there is often "web programming" or explicitily coding skills in Perl are demanded, even for system administration ...

HTH. Cheers.

[reply]
[d/l]
[select]