[MacPerl] Starting Off [was ongoing support of CFM68K]

[Peta Adams - John Murray <jmnc@lis.net.au>]

Charlie Wrote:

>>2. Set yourself a task list of say five simple little programs.
>
>Are any of these simple little programs? I'd like to use perl to:
>1) publish a 15 field database and include a page via which people wanting
>to register can submit an application,
>2) analyse the popularity of songs on a site with 50 RealAudios on it,
>currently getting 1100 ram downloads a day,
>3) extract multiple search engine responses for offline browsing (there's
>no such thing as free local calls in the UK)
>If these aren't going to be simple little programs, any suggestions?

I wouldn't have a problem with having a crack at them, and I'm 6 months
into a perl journey.

My thought about the list of five simple programs was around giving some
achievable goals to yourself that will keep you feeling "yes I can do this
stuff" and providing some fundamental learning along the way.

How suitable is this list in your process depends on a range of things, like:

a. How much time do you have
b. What level of knowledge of perl do you have now
c. What areas of knowledge of perl do you have
d. What areas of non perl knowledge do you have
e. Where do you lie on the line between "I just love the process of writing
programs" v "I just want what the programs can do"

But, given all this, I reckon it's a great list.

Cheers ... John









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