[Chicago-talk] How To Get People Started With Perl Using a Perl Mongers Group

[Mike Fragassi]

Well, the people who come to the meetings probably know enough Perl to be
on the list and show up in the first place, so they wouldn't need the
extremely low-level Perl 101 lectures.  Maybe if there are a bunch of
non-Perlers who are either lurking on the list (maybe a survey/show of
hands is called for?), or if the Meetup.com recommendation engine is
actually being used by people.

A "Modern Perl 101" might be useful.  I.e. Moose, Test::More, PerlCritic,
Module::Starter, etc.


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Doug Bell <madcityzen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Project Nights are times for anyone to come work on code, ask questions
> relating to code, show off code, and get ideas for code. So far, they've
> been working out pretty well.
>
> But what if you're not yet at the level of "writing Perl code"? How can we
> better help people get started with Perl? I usually only see these kinds of
> presentations during special times as part of a larger conference or
> workshop, but those only happen so often and in certain parts of the
> country.
>
> Is this even a topic that can be handled well by a user group? I can
> imagine a lot of repeat presentations (perhaps even a set of presentations,
> rotated through), with some "Get up-to-speed" time at the beginning for the
> things like "Installing Perl" and "How to run Perl code".
>
> Anyone have any thoughts, ideas, or opinions?
>
> Doug Bell
> madcityzen at gmail.com
>
>
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