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Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
Had a lovely time at last night's meeting, the talk was informative
and everybody was very nice to the new guy. There was also free cola
and an excellent view.<br>
<br>
I have a question:<br>
<br>
Perl is my first language, and I started learning it September 1st.
I'm working through the O'Reilly book <i>Learning Perl. </i>I just
got done with Chapter 8, so I've (hopefully) learned the syntax of
perl, how to work with loops and subroutines, hashes, arrays, and
scalars, and some idioms/shortcuts. Chapters 7 and 8 were devoted to
regular expressions. There's one more chapter playing with regexes,
then some more control structures (some of which I've already
dabbled with after cruising the documentation) and the rest seems to
deal with having perl do things to the system - file, directory, and
process operations (in conjunction with more pattern matching to
make it more powerful).<br>
<br>
My question is, where do I go after <i>Learning Perl</i>, and more
importantly, at what point do I start telling prospective employers
that I am competent with perl? I need a rubric. My current plan is
just to go through <i>Intermediate Perl</i> and then write
something cool.<br>
<br>
If anybody wants to look at my perl landing maneuvers and offer
constructive criticism, I'm on github.com/beatboxchad. Don't go
easy. I'm a quick study. No pain, no gain, right?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Chad<br>
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