I am getting started with perl in one of my classes at school. The class is taught by a non-profit teacher, his name is Dave Ferguson, who used to work with intel. He teaches the class at his own expense which includes him buying textbooks and everything else. This is actually a very unique class especially for only being in High School.
The school is very strict on our computer policy. We cannot search updates for ActivePerl and we cannot buy our books online, due to the extremely strict internet blocks. This is one of the setbacks, but not one we cannot deal with. (Sorry if that is a double negative)
The main problem, is that the DOS window, or Command Prompt, is blocked. The reason is from some students doing stuff and w/e but we need this to test our codes. We can still test our codes, if we use the <STDIN> command at the end, which will execute and then wait until we press enter, but the main problem is that we have no way of seeing what bugs we have. Perl is nice in the way that the things it does not understand it tells us what they are and shows in DOS window, but since that is blocked we cannot read the bugs, we have to debug it entirely on our own which is semi hard since were just getting into Perl.
Does anybody know what to do? Are there other ways of executing Perl programs?
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BTW, if anyone wants to know who the idiots are for getting Command Prompt blocked, and what they did to do so... well... one of the idiots is me, me and 2 friends were goofing off in the command prompt (which was already blocked but we made a batch file and sadly it worked (FAIL AT BLOCKING!!) ) and we found out the shutdown -i command... and we shutdown other people's computers remotely
... We did make sure that the person who we shut off was not doing important work or anything like that...
The school is very strict on our computer policy. We cannot search updates for ActivePerl and we cannot buy our books online, due to the extremely strict internet blocks. This is one of the setbacks, but not one we cannot deal with. (Sorry if that is a double negative)
The main problem, is that the DOS window, or Command Prompt, is blocked. The reason is from some students doing stuff and w/e but we need this to test our codes. We can still test our codes, if we use the <STDIN> command at the end, which will execute and then wait until we press enter, but the main problem is that we have no way of seeing what bugs we have. Perl is nice in the way that the things it does not understand it tells us what they are and shows in DOS window, but since that is blocked we cannot read the bugs, we have to debug it entirely on our own which is semi hard since were just getting into Perl.
Does anybody know what to do? Are there other ways of executing Perl programs?
********************************************************************************************************************
BTW, if anyone wants to know who the idiots are for getting Command Prompt blocked, and what they did to do so... well... one of the idiots is me, me and 2 friends were goofing off in the command prompt (which was already blocked but we made a batch file and sadly it worked (FAIL AT BLOCKING!!) ) and we found out the shutdown -i command... and we shutdown other people's computers remotely
... We did make sure that the person who we shut off was not doing important work or anything like that...