Geekuni

GeekUni is indeed a great online training platform. I participated in two of its training materials (i.e. Perl Essentials and Web Development). Both of them were practical and assuming that you have no knowledge in the topic, so they were trying to build... Read More my skill from the ground up. The good point about it is that although it starts from the basic, since it is practical, it is not boring at all and develops your knowledge fast. Also, you have the support of a teacher. The only thing that I wish was better is that I expected to explain object oriented Perl and debug techniques in more depth.

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