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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Greetings all,<br>
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This week, your goal is to begin learning vi and Perl. I say
"begin" because learning both to a level of proficiency will take
more than just this week. However, by the end of this week, you
should be able to have a basic ability to edit files in vi (which
is a text editor in your Linux instance) and be able to write
basic programs in Perl.<br>
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A word of warning: vi is not easy to learn. It's designed
intentionally to be extremely fast and powerful for folks with a
lot of vi experience. Once you've mastered vi, you'll find it the
single most powerful and efficiency text editor around. However,
it will be quite painful getting from novice to master. Just give
it a try, and keep working at it slowly. Eventually, you'll
develop a lot of "muscle memory" with the commands and be quite
effective; just be patient.<br>
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Perl is huge. It'll take you a couple years to become a master.
However, you should be able to start writing basic programs in a
few minutes. There are a number of different ways to learn Perl.
For this week, we're going to focus on basic programming concepts.<br>
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The third thing I'd like you to do this week is sign up for a
PerlMonks account. PerlMonks is a painfully slow site, but filled
with enormous Perl wisdom.<br>
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Here are URLs about learning vi:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=333737">http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=333737</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://goldenguru.com/docman/OReilly/Unix2/vi/index.htm">http://goldenguru.com/docman/OReilly/Unix2/vi/index.htm</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openvim.com/tutorial.html">http://www.openvim.com/tutorial.html</a><br>
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Here are URLs to start you off with Perl:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html">http://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://goldenguru.com/docman/OReilly/Perl_Bookshelf_v4/lperl/index.htm">http://goldenguru.com/docman/OReilly/Perl_Bookshelf_v4/lperl/index.htm</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials">http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials</a><br>
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Read through these resources and try the exercises.<br>
<br>
Gryphon<br>
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