[Courses] [Perl] Part 1:

[Steven Walker]

Just letting you know that I am here and following the course as a newbie 
to programming. So far it all seems OK and there is not much to say. I am 
sure I will be squealing with pain before long :)

My only comment is on the homework average problem. I did this
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $sum = 23 + 28 + 31 + 17 + 1;
print "The total is $sum \n";

my  $mean= $sum / 5;
print "The average is $mean \n";

Which works fine but is a bit of a cop out as I counted the number of items 
summed and  gave the result to the program. I expect that later in the 
course there will be a way of counting the number of entries in a variable.

Steve