<div dir="ltr">That all sounds good to me. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Doug Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:madcityzen@gmail.com" target="_blank">madcityzen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>That's a good idea. An evolving set of Modern Perl Presentations on topics that pick up where beginners tutorials leave off. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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...</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps we could start a Github project to develop this kind of content?</div>
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<div><br>On May 7, 2013, at 7:45 AM, Mike Fragassi <<a href="mailto:mikefrag@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikefrag@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>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 <a href="http://Meetup.com" target="_blank">Meetup.com</a> recommendation engine is actually being used by people. </div>
<div><br></div><div>A "Modern Perl 101" might be useful. I.e. Moose, Test::More, PerlCritic, Module::Starter, etc. <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Doug Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:madcityzen@gmail.com" target="_blank">madcityzen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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".<br>
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Anyone have any thoughts, ideas, or opinions?<br>
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Doug Bell<br>
<a href="mailto:madcityzen@gmail.com" target="_blank">madcityzen@gmail.com</a><br>
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