RE: [TCLUG:11227] learning perl/python

[Smith Jeremy <jrsmit2@uswest.com>]

I've had the best luck following this route:

Buy the best-recommended book you can on a subject and try your hand at
creating three or four basic programs in it.

_Then_ take the step-up-from-beginners class, and go into it both with
questions and enough knowledge of the language to know what type of things
you're going to want to use it for.  Not to mention that the instructors
tend to get better as the level of the class goes up, at least in my
opinion.

Jer


> 
>         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.