Re: [TCLUG:11227] learning perl/python

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 12:13:28PM -0800, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 	quick question:
> 	when you learned perl (or python, or TCL/TK, or shell scripts),
> how did you learn it? on the job? or did you take a class? or just by
> osmosis from being around other users?
> 
> 	I'm debating asking the boss to send me off to class for perl;
> and wondering if I might do better (at least for the admin scripting I
> need), to just try to teach myself.

	I've always learned stuff like that by having a decent manual
and playing with it.  I start doing small things with it, and then do
larger and larger things until I feel I know it pretty well.  That's
even how I learned C++.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
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