Everyone will have its own idea on this issue. I learned Perl on my own with the Camel book and Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours and just starting to use Perl. This doesn't necessarily make you a good programmer and I had ot unlearn a lot of "bad" habits later, but it got the job done. And over the years you pick-up better techniques and get to know the language better.

The nice thing about Perl is that you can go a long way without mastering the language fully: e.g. for years I hardly ever used grep or map (and then map mostly in a void context), now there is hardly a script I write which does not use these functions.

Hanging out on Perlmonks is a wonderful experience and really kicked my coding into a higher gear.

But as they say : YMMV

When for the price of a few hundred dollars you can quickly improve your coding skills and get a better job, I think it is worth the price. However I personally doubt that a video or online course will do better than a book. In the end it is still you that has to do the coding, so just start coding!

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In reply to Re: Perl Training online courses? by CountZero
in thread Perl Training online courses? by matze77

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.