Move Ahead in Perl or Try Something New?

I'm just about halfway done with my Perl course and it feels really good. I'm not sure if I'm going to go on to a more difficult Perl course or to go on to another language. There two sides to this coin. If I go on to the cert for open source programming, this course is it for Perl. I would then move on to an intro course for Python, a course on...

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Perl index()

I was playing with index() in Perl today, which was a lot of fun. I started off with something similar to this code, which prints out the following: Here is a list of my programming books 1 The Well-Grounded Rubyist 2 Pragmatic Thinking & Learning 3 Programming Ruby 1.9 4 Learning Perl I learned how to use index() in the course I'm taking. In this example, I am using index() to print out ONLY Ruby books (and their ranking). I am aware that it's very redundant code (I'll change that later.) Index() determines the position of a character...

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Beginning Programming: Why Learn Ruby

If you're new to programming, Ruby is a great programming language to start off with. The Ruby community has composed many guides, videos, blogs, books, etc in order to teach this programming language to those who are new to computer science. Most of these guides teach the fundamentals of computer science while showing how to program in Ruby. Another great reason to choose Ruby is because the language's syntax is much easier to read and understand than other programming languag...

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Perl Heredoc & Conditionals

I just finished learning more about heredocs in Perl in my Perl programming course. After getting set up on Ubuntu, I decided to get comfortable programming in Linux again (it's a super pain in Windows.) Here I am playing around with a few new concepts and some things (like variables/scalars) which I'm definitely comfortable and used to using. This tiny program I wrote is extremely redundant (I could write this thing to be teeny-tiny in Ruby, but I'm not at that point in Perl.) However, writing this helped me think in a more Perl-y way. I'm...

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Perl Heredoc

I'm learning about something called a heredoc in Perl. It's an interesting concept that I've not come across so far in Ruby (although a friend tells me that this does exist in Ruby.) Essentially it's for multi-line strings -- and they make code a quad-billion times easier to read. Don't quote me on the quad-billion thing... I'm not sure how many ease-of-reading units there are in Perl code without a heredoc nor how many there are with a heredoc. It'll take a bit to get used to using a heredoc, especially the empty line thing -- what's that about?...

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Adding, Concatenation, Ruby, & Perl

I've noticed some similarities between Ruby and Perl, but have noticed some really strange differences. One of these is this: 0.1 + 0.1 0.1 + "0.1" "0.1" + "0.1" In Ruby, the answers would be as follows: 0.2 Error: String can't be coerced into Float (TypeError) 0.10.1 In Perl: 0.2 0.2 0.2 I'll have to do some digging to see why it happens like this in Perl, but it's really strange to me, perhaps because I learned it, well, the Ruby w...

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Perl (Learning a New Language)

Welp, I'm taking a Perl course. So no Ruby for a while -- okay, so that's a lie. I <3 Ruby so I'll definitely be programming in it for fun. I'm learning a new language, I'll be strapped for time  to play around in Ruby, but I'll make it happen I learned that Perl can be considered to be a procedural language, function, and object-oriented...

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Word Length Checker

This tool checks for word length, but instead of pasting text into a box, it's more complicated than that. Here's the problem I was having and why I created this tool: One of my niche sites has several hundred posts of varying length. Since Panda it hasn't been doing so well, and a huge part of this is the length of each post. The only posts that are doing well are the longer ones. So I wanted to find each of the offending "short" posts and expand on the topic of each. There are several hundred posts, so it's something that will take quite a...

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Ruby SERP Checker Repo

Recently, Google made a large number of changes to their SERPs, so I have decided to abandon my SERP checker project (RankyPanky) that I was writing in Ruby. As Google has been rolling out update after update (We're on Panda 2.6 now, right?,) it's getting increasingly difficult to parse Google SERPs. Constructocat by jsncostello I removed the...

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C Programming Exercises

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