Re: PerlMonks for newbies?

[jethro]

It seems to me similar to the idea of having two emergency numbers for calling the police. One for the small emergencies and one for the serious emergencies

But seriously, here are some disadvantages:

• It splits up the helpers.
• perl users need to know two websites and ...
• decide which one to use depending on the problem. Don't think that will work. For a beginner any question he can't answer is advanced
• and they need an account on both if they have newbie and advanced questions
• A lot of people like perlmonks.org because they can help AND learn. Most of them would have to read both websites

I'm not saying the idea is bad, but there are definitely disadvantages

[cosmicperl]

It seems to me similar to the idea of having two emergency numbers for calling the police. One for the small emergencies and one for the serious emergencies

I was thinking more along the lines of asking questions of your primary school teacher, compared to later in life asking serious questions of your University professor.



It splits up the helpers.

I was thinking more of creating new helpers. Most Perl programmers could be very helpful to complete beginners. Whereas a lot of the questions you get here are high level stuff, only top Perl programmers can answer a lot of them.
  For example I'd consider myself an intermediate Perl programmer. I try and always answer a question here when I come to ask one. I don't hang round a lot of answer questions as I know there are much better people already here. On a low level newbie site I'd be more inclined to hang round more as I'd be able to help a lot more people. I believe others would feel the same.

perl users need to know two websites and ...
decide which one to use depending on the problem. Don't think that will work. For a beginner any question he can't answer is advanced
and they need an account on both if they have newbie and advanced questions

I'd think more than they'd start on one, and move onto another.

A lot of people like perlmonks.org because they can help AND learn. Most of them would have to read both websites

I don't see that most of them would have to read both websites :/ Obviously they could if they wanted to. Anything new and interesting that did crop up on the newbie site would then be mentioned here as well, removing the need for people to monitor both. But really there shouldn't be anything like that on the newbie site as it'd be intended for absolute beginners.


Lyle

[jethro]

I have my doubts a "low level" copy of perlmonks will really be a benefit. But feel free to do it. Still, you should think about something to distinguish your site from perlmonks, maybe with an interactive programming course on that website.

[Lawliet]

I was thinking more of creating new helpers.

Whence would the new helpers come?

[cosmicperl]

Have you seen field of dreams? :)

But seriously, like I outlined, I think it'd be attractive to many intermediate Perl programmers like myself.