[DFW.pm] Last Night's Video Stream

Andrew Solomon andrew at geekuni.com
Thu Sep 17 16:24:34 PDT 2015


Hi All,

Thanks for inviting me to the meeting. I think OPPC is a wonderful example
of the values and initiative which define the Perl community!

Now that I've watched the video here are a few thoughts I'd have shared if
I were awake at the time:)

* You should get in touch with Alex Muntada who's currently the maintainer
of http://dev.perltuts.com/ I think some of the groundwork is in place
there. Particularly in the international/multilingual context.

* Given that you're embarking on a big project, and it's targeting
children, I'd recommend you look into Perl 6 rather than Perl 5. Perl 5 is
in my veins now but I think back to the challenge of Perl 5's sigils.
Larry's desire as a linguist to make Perl a natural language has been
tempered by the observation that it's not an easy language to learn.  For
Perl 6 he's focussed on making Perl a good first language too.

* Geekuni is powered by an AI tutor-bot which provides lots of automated
feedback to the trainee so that when they come to asking a question, it's
very well formulated and all the silly bugs have been ironed out. It's not
on CPAN yet since it's still being rapidly changed, however the ideas
behind it are "open source" and I gave a talk on this at YAPC::EU a couple
of weeks ago. Alas there's no video but I'm happy to present it again.

If you'd like to play with Geekuni to get a feel for my spin on how
programming should be taught, send me an email.

All the best,

Andrew (andrew at geekuni.com)




On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:05 AM, DFW Perl Mongers via DFW-pm <dfw-pm at pm.org>
wrote:

> You can view last night's live video stream from the meeting at the
> following URL
> https://youtu.be/PhftLvkHjpQ
>
> --
> Tommy Butler, John Fields
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-- 
Andrew Solomon

Mentor at Geekuni http://geekuni.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/asolomon
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