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

[Mike Fragassi]

That all sounds good to me.


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Doug Bell <madcityzen at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a good idea. An evolving set of Modern Perl Presentations on topics
> that pick up where beginners tutorials leave off.
>
> Though I'd think it'd be better to title them with the broader programming
> topic they're about: Modern Perl OO, Automated Testing, Linting and Static
> Analysis, Module Boilerplate, etc...
>
> I've also thought that using Chromatic's Modern Perl book as a guide for a
> set of tutorial-level presentations might be a good idea.
>
> Perhaps we could start a Github project to develop this kind of content?
>
> On May 7, 2013, at 7:45 AM, Mike Fragassi <mikefrag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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