<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Well for most kids (or even adults now) they’ve never used a command line before. If your kids have not, you may want to do a Day 1 class to teach them command line stuff, listing directory contents, changing directory,... using a text editor to create, edit, and save a file.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Other classes that I can quickly think of include:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ol class="MailOutline"><li class="">reading/writing a file in perl</li><li class="">commandline perl to reformat a file contents or processes output ( example would be extracting/removing a date string or file name from a log file’s contents )</li></ol></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">-Brian<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 13, 2016, at 10:43, Richard Reina <<a href="mailto:gatorreina@gmail.com" class="">gatorreina@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">I have a 10 year old and an 11 year old. I would like them to learn a little perl and am trying to come up with a mini (30 day) perl course designed for them that will make it fun. Something like Randal Schwartz stroll thru perl from his Learning Perl book but eaiser. What I was thinking was something like the following but I run out of ideas after about 3 days. If anyone can help with more days worth of ideas I would be grateful to here your suggestions.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Day 1: Create a Hello World script.<br class=""></div>Day 2: Make hello world script ask for users name capture it and respond "Please to meet you "user".<br class=""></div>Day 3: Ask user if they wan't to know the date and time and give it to them if they type "y".<br class=""></div>Day 4: <br class=""></div>Day 5 ....<br class=""></div>
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