Geekuni

I took the perl courses from Geekuni when I joined booking.com asa backend engineer and I had to get familiar with the language fast. The course helps you by giving you all the information you need to understand how to read and write perl code, it takes... Read More you step by step in all the important aspects of the language and by making you to complete tasks make you to understand what are you doing and get productive really fast

I had been wanting to learn Perl and someone pointed me to Geekuni. I think that was spot on! The lessons were very well structured, very helpful for a complete beginner like myself. The exercises at the end of each topic were also very good, not only... Read More because it showed real-life examples, but also because it also forced me to think -- not just copying/pasting what was given in the lesson. It also showed me best practices and a good way to write idiomatic Perl.

My overall experience was great. I did it as part of onboarding into Perl, which was a completely new language for me. Switching to Perl from Ruby came with a lot of (un)learning curve and Geekuni was extremely helpful in that. Tactically created lessons... Read More and the flow highlighted the crucial powers of the language while teaching the basics and creating awareness of the common pitfalls you can bump into. The exercises were interesting and fun too.

The courses were structured very well even for someone who has no experience with Perl. One of the pros is that you learn through completing tasks and not just theory. The description of the task was very analytical and thorough. Overall a very nice course,... Read More recommended for anyone who wants to learn Perl.

GeekUni has helped me to quickly understand some of the in's and out's of Perl. Course is well structured and the problems are very good for beginners to become mature in perl. I think it's increasing level of difficulty and use of old lessons in new... Read More lessons and the mix of exercises gives you quite good understanding of perl

GeekUni has helped me to quickly understand some of the in's and out's of Perl. The course is well structured and the increase in the level of difficulty is perfect for beginners, as the questions will always force you to think deeply about the logic... Read More required to solve the problem. Moreover, the platform is very practical as it requires you to complete projects with large data sets. Which you have to manipulate and store efficiently in the most suitable data structures. All the problems in this course have provided me with the knowledge and skills to know work more confidently with Perl.

I found the perl training extremely well designed. It takes you step by step, trying to build the concept in a easy to understand way. It doesn't spoon feed you and lets you figure out some stuff for yourself. The exercises are well designed to challenge... Read More you and as you progress they are not easy too. I would recommend this to anybody who wants to learn perl the right way.
Thank you Andrew and Geekuni.