Learning a Computer Programming Language in One Month

During the month of October I took an online programming course in Perl. The reason I took this course, other than the fact that it is part of my Webmaster certificate program, was that Perl and Ruby are supposed to be a lot alike and I want to learn Ruby. That brings me to the reason I have not posted a blog since October, and that is the reason! Of course you can't really learn a programming language in a month, but I did learn a lot of the basics of Perl. When I started writing Perl programs I made lots of syntax errors, but by the time I finished the course I was not making very many. I still make logic errors, but at least my programs will run.

Perl used to be the language of choice for server-side scripting, but in the past few years it has largely been supplanted by newer languages such as PHP, ASP, JSP, CFM, and lately the hottest language on the Web--Ruby and its development environment-Ruby on Rails. I can't wait to study Ruby.