Another hot day here in Southampton.
I had a project meeting with Dr Carr today to report my progress and given some suggestion.
My big plan is sound: Gather dataset of University staff into some data structure -> analyse the data (How to analyse them requires more reading), generate some diagrams.
From the way Dr Carr suggested, a scripting language like Perl, python would be more suitable than a programming language like C in this context, so I had a look at them this afternoon. A quick compare made me to stick to Perl: It is a good text manipulator language(I always wanted to learn one), it has more resource for learning and more active from the impression I get from the search results.
Started to follow a tutorial this afternoon, wrote a couple of scripts, used several variable types: hash, scalar, array, and filehandler. Everything goes smoothly, I should be able to start using it in a day or two.
Once I get a hand of Perl, I should start to practice analysing and manipulating small amount of people exported from the ECS eprints.
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An advice about Perl: there are too many tutorials that teach outdated Perl.
ReplyDeleteFor ex., almost any Perl program should start with "use strict;". Also "open my $fh,'<','filename.txt' or die "Cannot open file";" is a modern way to open files.