Perl... how on earth do i start? - (Jul/20/2011 )
howdy peeps.. long time no see
i'm looking to start learning Perl but frankly simply getting started is doing my nut in.
Taking into account i have no experience of programming whatsoever (unless you count "BASIC" in college) and am self teaching from info i am gathering from the web... how on earth do i start?
so far ive gotten my hands on :-
perl cookbook
Learning perl on win32
Pspad editor
Activeperl 5.12.4 build 1205 (which contains perl critic + perl package manager)
im assuming you type the programming into the pspad editor but then how do you run it?
is there a better (free) program or setup i can download where i simply type the stuff then run it?
i know it sounds like a daft question but i cant begin to learn the language till i can get the computer to say "hello world" to me.
any help would be greatly appreciated
dom
Try strawberry perl... if you are using windows.
http://strawberryperl.com/
Don't ask me much... I am still learning as well...
i don't know much about perl but check out this website:
the perl programming language
thanks guys
i tried strawberry but it refused to work so i stuck with activeperl
and that website is where i first found perl
ive worked out the problem btw (at 7:30 am after a long night of swearing)
the programs were running just fine but the command line interpreter was shutting down after it had run... thus all you got was a quick flicker of a black box then nothing... ive temporallily fixed this by adding an input line at the end of my programs (thus i have to hit enter before it will shut down) but if anyone knows of better software it would be greatly appreciated as this is a bit of a pain.
dom
Dominic on Thu Jul 21 16:54:15 2011 said:
thanks guys
i tried strawberry but it refused to work so i stuck with activeperl
and that website is where i first found perl
ive worked out the problem btw (at 7:30 am after a long night of swearing)
the programs were running just fine but the command line interpreter was shutting down after it had run... thus all you got was a quick flicker of a black box then nothing... ive temporallily fixed this by adding an input line at the end of my programs (thus i have to hit enter before it will shut down) but if anyone knows of better software it would be greatly appreciated as this is a bit of a pain.
dom
hey dom...yup, long time, no read (and like I understood what you just posted above
)...hope you're doing well. I don't know where you're at with this Perly stuff but our ubergeek perlmunk posted this site before in the Bioinformatic subforum...Perly Gates....hope it's useful...
star as ever cass... it looks perfect
dont worry i dont really understand much of what im typing either.. ive just had a few intense nights of perl and its beginning to sink in... im not the 'puter geek i used to be
dom
ok.. maybe perfect was OTT... but itll still be helpfull as a third teacher..thanks
Dominic on Fri Jul 22 01:38:48 2011 said:
star as ever cass... it looks perfect
dont worry i dont really understand much of what im typing either.. ive just had a few intense nights of perl and its beginning to sink in... im not the 'puter geek i used to be
dom
ok.. maybe perfect was OTT... but itll still be helpfull as a third teacher..thanks
you're welcome, dom....keep working on it and perhaps you can give perlmunk a run for his geeky money...
'temporallily fixed this by adding an input line at the end of my programs'
have you fixed this problem yet?