How do newbies find Perl learning materials online?
This is a very short entry, which will lead to a long one later. Right now in light of the recent hubbub about the study claiming that perl's as good as a randomized language for newbies, i am trying to find out just how a newbie searches for Perl learning materials online and what he finds first.
Right now i'm concentrating on what kind of search term a newbie would enter in Google. Luckily Google trends help a bit there, allowing me to compare between various search terms.
These are the search terms i came up with or was suggested:
perl tutorial 1.00 perl cgi 0.79 programming perl 0.45 perl examples 0.37 perl learn 0.10
Please help me and see if you can think of any other search terms that would be more often used than "perl tutorial". Thanks in advance.
Not writing much, but often found pawing at CPAN with other #perl-cats
I guess perl course, perl training, learning perl, programming perl, perl examples could also be used.
Do newbies want learn Perl?
> Do newbies want learn Perl?
I'm not thinking about programming newbies, just people who have decided, or have had the decision made for them, to learn Perl.
> perl course, perl training, learning perl, programming perl, perl examples
Thanks, programming perl and perl examples are search terms that are used in higher volume than "almost never", though they still don't perform as well as "perl tutorial".
I've updated the graph.
"perl cgi" seems to be used more often than "perl tutorial".
Good shot, but in the past 12 months it's lost a bit in use. :)
Updated the graph again to show only the past 12 months.
I am experienced in other languages, but just learning Perl. I usually resort to either StackOverflow.com or google "How to in Perl"
Yeah, "how to" is a strong one too, luckily it brings up similar results to "tutorial perl", so i can treat it as the same. :)
What could the front page of Perl.com include to help people find better material?
I'll be thinking and writing about that tomorrow. This entry was mostly a sanity check to see if i'm not barking up the wrong tree. Looks as if i'm right though and i'd say perl.com is not the solution at the moment, unless you know how to SOE and game the hell out of Google.
Swanand, I'd be very interested to see your searches.
So if you have time, please collect them as you make progress and either post them as a series of blog entries or send them to me by e-mail: (szabgab @ gmail.com )