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jeebusroxors

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Registered: 2005-10-26

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Perl Newb

Hi all,

I've set my mind to learning perl, again... but I'm running into the same problems I always run into. I find it hard to just sit and do the examples. I'm wondering if anyone could point me to some simple, useful ideas I can start off with, or reverse engineer? I gotta get my hands dirty to learn.

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pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

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Re: Perl Newb

When I'm learning a new language I try to use it to solve or implement whatever is on my mind. For example, the first two things I did in Factor were figuring out how to add the text editor of my choice to its list of editors (which involved writing string manipulation code) and writing a program to map a just intonation musical scale to fingerings on an instrument expressed in semitones. Are there any simple problems like that that have been on your mind?

peets

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Registered: 2007-01-11

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Re: Perl Newb

You can write a script for dzen.
You can write a program to finally properly name and tag your music collection.
You can write a script that downloads RSS feeds, but only keeps entries containing keywords that are of interest to you.

CPAN is your friend.

F

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Registered: 2006-10-09

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Re: Perl Newb

www.projecteuler.net

jeebusroxors

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Registered: 2005-10-26

Posts: 58

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Re: Perl Newb

Thanks all for the help. An update: I've spent the past two nights strugling through a random movie quote generator using net::OSCAR. Pretty fun, and I've finally got it working. Now to modify it to become cool I see an SSH bot or an arch bot in the future.

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