Phoenix.pm: Next meeting topic

Warner, David David.Warner at feddata.com
Wed Sep 22 12:33:11 CDT 1999


To all,

	As an aside, the latest issue of "The Perl Journal" really slams
the "Perl 5 for Dummies" book for being grossly inaccurate and in
general, useless for learning perl.  Maybe there is a spot somewhere
below O'Reilly's "Learning Perl" that needs to be filled in an
open-source fashion?

			Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas E. Miles [mailto:doug.miles at bpxinternet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 10:10 AM
To: phoenix-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
Subject: Re: Phoenix.pm: Next meeting topic


Pablo Velasquez wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> First, it was great meeting everyone last evening.
> 
> To respond to your question: I'm for keeping the group together.
"Beginner"
> or "Advanced", there's more than one way to do it :)

Thanks for the feedback!

> Proposal: I had a general idea that I wanted to bring up. I was
thinking
> about a workshop for a local university or college. Meaning, as a
group we
> create a Intro. to Perl type curriculum that we present at
colleges...this
> is certainly a longer term project, perhaps a topic of discussion for
a
> meeting? (I was thinking of it as providing a service to the
community)
> 
> My motivation for this type of project is that you create a system for
> institutionalizing Perl at the academic level. You get more members,
you
> encourage Perl being taught, therefore, increasing the level of
awareness,
> etc. Once you create relationships with different computer science
> departments you begin to create a system of Perl being taught...

I think that this idea definitely warrents more discussion.  I think
that its a great idea.  I don't have any idea how to go about doing it
though (maybe you do).  Any other thoughts on this?

-- 
People understand instinctively that the best way for computer
programs to communicate with each other is for each of the them
to be strict in what they emit, and liberal in what they accept.
The odd thing is that people themselves are not willing to be
strict in how they speak, and liberal in how they listen.
--Larry Wall, 2nd State of the Onion Address, August 1998



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