[oak perl] (fwd) 12 lessons

[George Woolley]

David A.:  Thanks!   -- George

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Ladies and gentlemen,
the Oakland.pm ambassador to DC has made a request.
What say you?

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All, My initial thoughts are that the outline is 
generally a coherent suggestion given the stated aim.

Personally, I'd want a lot more context 
before saying much more than that.
For example, I'd be interested in knowing:
1. What's the format of this course?
    E.g. One session a week? One session a month?
    E.g. Two hours per session or what?
2. Where does the impetus for this class come from?
    E.g. People who wish to take the class?
           People who think that other people should learn these things?
3. Is there a pool of teacher prospects for teaching this course?
    What kinds of backgrounds do they have?
    Are they eager to teach such a course?
4. What is the working definition of expert being used?
   How do you determine if someone is an expert?
(Hm, perhaps this context would be known to me,
if I were part of DC.pm.)
In any case, if the context has not been explicitly stated,
my #1 suggestion would be to do that.

      George  

On Thursday 06 March 2003 5:06 pm, David Alban wrote:
> [Philip:  see <http://oakland.pm.org/detail/related.html>, section
> entitled "What's an Ambassador?"]
>
> O.K.  I figured someday I'd actually have to *do* something as perl
> ambassador.  This was on the Washington, D.C. list.  Can we help out
> Philip?  I'll send anything we come up with to the dc list.  (Or if
> you want, you can join the dc list yourself and interact directly
> with them. :-)
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Philip Hood <hood at panix.com> -----
>
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:49:35 -0500 (EST)
> From: Philip Hood <hood at panix.com>
> To: dc at lists.pm.org
> Subject: [dcpm] 12 lessons
> Reply-To: dc at lists.pm.org
>
> hi - I was late to tuesdays meeting & couldn't get
> in the door, but I did write up this very brief
> sketch of an outline for the year long perl course,
> broken down into 12 sections.  Can people critique
> (with suggestions for changes) on this outline -
> and help develop the outline into something that
> takes form ?  Again, this is just a first pitch
> at the thing & contains my rough thinking on the
> thing, its in no way finalized.  I'm also not
> overly protective of the thoughts, so feel free
> to rip it up into any intellectual shreds you'd
> like to.  Again, the idea is that we need to be
> able to take a newbie, anyone who wants to get
> right on the boat at step 1 and take them right
> up to pretty "expert" level in about a years
> time, if they are willing to do a lot of work
> on their own, etc ...
>
>
> 	1.  the unix roots of perl.  A discussion of some
> 	unix fundamentals, philosophy, the things that
> 	went into the creation of perl, a walk around
> 	different shells.  system issues, these sorts of
> 	things.  history of perl.  perl community,
> 	perl philosophy and way of life - the
> 	phenomonology of perl, so to speak.
>
> 	2.  perl (and programming) fundamentals.
> 	conditionals, looping, subroutines, other
> 	basic things about perl.
>
> 	3.  regular expressions.  regular expressions
> 	explored to a relatively indepth length.
>
> 	4.  more perl fundamentals.  more indepth
> 	discussion of functions.
>
> 	5.  Data structures.  an exploration of data
> 	structures in perl, very complex data structures,
> 	references, subroutinereferences.
>
> 	6.  packages and modules.  how to use packages,
> 	loading new packages, namespaces.  exploration of
> 	packages on cpan, etc.
>
> 	7.  perl for web.  apache.  mod-perl.  html::mason,
> 	xml & perl. other web related perl services.  sql
> 	and perl.  cgi and perl. html and perl, etc.
>
> 	8.  Object oriented perl.  Introduction.
>
> 	9.  Second class on object oriented perl.  producing
> 	modules for cpan.
>
> 	10.  perl internals and other things not covered above.
>
> 	11.  developing perl.  extended discussion on the
> 	the development of perl and the developers community.
>
> 	12.  more on developing perl towards perl 6 - with
> 	C.
>
>
> ml
> pth
>
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