Grenades, chainsaws, tarpits, and newbies
Grenades, chainsaws, tarpits, and newbies
By brian d foy (brian d foy) from NY.pm
Date: Tuesday, 4 August 2009 11:40
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Beginning Perl
Language:
Tags: beginner dangerous
You might think twice about giving a kid a chainsaw and pointing him at a forest, but not too many people think about giving a beginner a copy of Learning Perl and pointing her at a keyboard. Left alone, both situations can get very ugly really fast. With a little bit of guidance on how to use Perl, newbies don't have to hurt themselves.
This isn't another Perl Best Practices talk or a bunch of Perl syntax; a first week Perl user isn't that far along yet. This is how to think about Perl, or any programming language, even before you get started.
Attended by: Søren Lund (slu), Patrick Michaud (Pm), Nicholas Clark, Lech Baczyński (lechu), Dave Cross (davorg), Piers Cawley (pdcawley), Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (daxim), Damian Conway (damian), David H. Adler (dha), H.Merijn Brand (Tux), Armando Reis (AReis), MartijnVdS, stigo, Cosimo Streppone (cosimo), Roberto Henríquez, Jose Neta (jpn), Oliver Thieke (o-thieke), Marcos Ramos (x), Canol Gokel, Sérgio Bernardino (smpb), Stelios Gikas (sgikas), Wendy Van Dijk (woolfy), Rafael Antonio (RA), Jörg Plate (Patterner), Aristotle, Sergio Arias, Petru Ratiu (rpetre), Diogo Antunes, Jordi Delgado (jdelgado), Tiago Grego, Darius Jokilehto, Cosmin Budrica (cosmincx), Troels Liebe Bentsen (tlbdk), Marco Neves (themage), Hugo Costa, Jozef Kutej (jozef), Panu Ervamaa (pnu), Thomas Heine, Hermen Lesscher (hermen), Francisco Lourenço (fml), Flavio Poletti (polettix), Bartosz Jakubski (migo), Edmund von der Burg (evdb), Leo Lapworth (ranguard), Luis Rodrigues (goblin), Cláudio Valente, Ricardo Vercesi (rvercesi), Marco Baan (pzt), Martin Schipany (ElCondor), Abe Timmerman (abeltje), Henrique Alves (Halves), Paul Fenwick (pjf), Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (maddingue), geira,