I vote for Perl coz. I agree bob, it is the coolest language ever :-) .However, most importantly it is useful for wide variety of things you do later in your career (like the previous post). Additional reason for beginners like me is that fact that I get to find more people who can and are willing to help. Unlike other languages you depend on limited few who may or may not have time to spare. Since I was interested in processing biological data I chose to learn bioperl and your class definitely gave a strong foundation. However, I would request you, if possible, to include the section on database interaction.
<br>Kiran<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Andersen</b> <<a href="mailto:gotosleep@gmail.com">gotosleep@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I took your class in spring 2006 and shortly after that was hired on to my first programming job. We do a ton of scripting where I work, and your class definitely gave me a huge advantage. We do all our scripting in either korn shell, perl, or tcl, I of course chose perl whenever I can :) I can honestly say that the perl I learned in your class was one of the most useful things I've ever learned at UNO. I don't think Python would have been nearly as useful for me. From my limited experience, it seems like most of the big companies use perl for most of their scripting needs. Perl is the most practical (and the best) choice, in my opinion.
<br><br><div><div><span class="q" id="q_110f577a20b9ec9d_1"><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Fulkerson</b> <<a href="mailto:robert.fulkerson@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
robert.fulkerson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><span class="q" id="q_110f577a20b9ec9d_3">
Greetings All!<br><br> UNO would like to create a two-course sequence of web-related programming. We currently have my course, which is taught in Perl and another course that covers similar content but doesn't require any previous programming experience that is taught in Python. Essentially, we're going use the current Python course as the intro course and then my course as the advanced course. We're going to standardize on one language, however, and Perl, Ruby and Python (and heck, even PHP) are all candidates. The two languages at the top of the heap are Perl and Python, since work has already been done in both languages, thus reducing the amount of work to create the two-course sequence. I, of course, want the language to be Perl and have my own set of reasons, but I thought I'd cast a wide net out to everyone for ideas that I can bring to the table on Tuesday.
<br><br> So, fire away. Why should we continue to teach Perl instead of Python at UNO? Other than the fact that it's the coolest language ever? :)<br><br> Thanks!<br> -- b<br>
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