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Set a goal
First, write some scripts that perform the basic functions of the large program that you want to create. Learn from the scripts than can be found on internet, that already perform these basic functions. Learn, don't just copy. Small scripts that open and close files, count the number of words in a file, manage a form where users can fill in data, or a script that searches a record in a database, or fills it, replaces it, or deletes it. Who knows, maybe you're the one that speeds up the Schwartzian Transform with over 50%! New people, new ways of thinking. Of course it's easy to find people that can provide you with a good goal, when you prefer not to think up one of your own. Ask your boss, your teacher, somebody in a neighbourhood club. Something useful for somebody else. That can be very motivational to learn Perl. |