Hello,
The powers that be have decided, despite having a hand full of programmers, that the jr sysadmin (me) is the right code monkey to build a small application for the organization (I guess that's a honor, right?). This is no problem, I can code this thing, however, I'd like it to have the appearance of "professionality" if a programmer reads it. I think the easiest way to trick the programmer species into thinking it is not "dreaded sysadmin code" is to have a nice directory tree.
Like I said, coding a functional 'program' isn't the issue - in fact, the worst part is that I'll need to automate a few more of my prized mindless tasks which give me the appearance I'm very busy (I am) and a valuable employee (debatable, jk) to free up enough time to build this thing.
My experience with programming is mostly task automation, followed by small scale - full stack web development, and bailing out higher ups when they make deals which involve multiple technologies, all using different languages, that have to play together to return a result (Chances nearing 100% why I was selected as the ideal candidate for this project).
This brings me to my question. The project I'll be working on will be a small application which writes to a file, has a GUI, runs on Linux and will be written in PERL (see my position above and only formal programming education in C++ for why PERL). I'd like the only obvious give away a sysadmin wrote the code to be choice of PERL - which could be explainable by a programmer who is a U of I alum - class of '89 (not me) creating it.
Does anyone know of a small scale C or PERL github I can review for quick wins on file structure of applications, books, or advice?
Thank you!