curse of the black perl
Last week I finished my class in JavaScript. My final programming assignment wasn’t too exciting. Basically had to create a user registration login system. So… in a nutshell, the class covered all the basics of JavaScript: a healthy dosage of html review, writing good code in JavaScript, variable scope, functions with parameters, math functions, decimal formatting, the date object, arrays, loops, conditionals, recursive functions, dhtml and DOM scripting, event handlers, IE special effects, status bars, pattern matching and regular expressions, and cookies.
There were a few chapters in our book that we missed, and I really want to go back and learn the stuff before I look for jobs: the drag-and-drop feature, dynamic content, and the node tree.
Tonight I had my first day of Perl. The teacher seems a little rusty (I’m being very polite by only calling him “rusty”), and hopefully he’ll get get his groove back soon. I had to remind him that JavaScript does not run on the server, but Java does. Yikes! That was a bad sign. I’m sure he’ll get back into the swing of things soon enough. For the time being, I’m just keeping my fingers crossed, hoping I won’t drown. I read the intro to my book “Learning Perl” by Randal Schwartz & Tom Christiansen, and the Perl intro documentation through my terminal. We’re covering roughly two chapters a week, so it’s gonna go quick. So for the next ten weeks, if I haven’t updated, you’ll know why.
