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Simon Andrews
I'm thinking about putting together a a series of evening classes at
work for a group of people who are interested in learning Perl. I'm
just thinking about how to split things up and the best approaches to
take. A couple of quetions presented themselves and I though I'd
solicit opinions from others who have done this sort of thing before.
1) When do you think it's best to introduce strictures into the programs
people write. Many moons back I learnt Perl using Learning Perl, which
I found to be excellent, but looking back I see that it doesn't
introduce the concept of strictures into any of the basic exercises. I
remember that adapting my programming to using strictures was one of the
harder things I had to get my head around, and I wonder if it would have
been easier to have started off by writing all programs under warnings
(+diagnostics) and strict?
2) How much Perl do you reckon people can comfortably take in one
sitting? I'm in the nice position of being able to spread the training
in short sesssions over several weeks so that people don't get
overloaded (most will never have done any programming before at all).
Most technical courses I've seen suffer from throwing too much
information at people which results in them not retaining much of it. I
was thinking of 1.5 hours at a stretch and maybe 10 sessions in total
(with exercises in between), to give them a good introduction to the
language.
Any thoughts / advice appreciated.
TTFN
Simon.
work for a group of people who are interested in learning Perl. I'm
just thinking about how to split things up and the best approaches to
take. A couple of quetions presented themselves and I though I'd
solicit opinions from others who have done this sort of thing before.
1) When do you think it's best to introduce strictures into the programs
people write. Many moons back I learnt Perl using Learning Perl, which
I found to be excellent, but looking back I see that it doesn't
introduce the concept of strictures into any of the basic exercises. I
remember that adapting my programming to using strictures was one of the
harder things I had to get my head around, and I wonder if it would have
been easier to have started off by writing all programs under warnings
(+diagnostics) and strict?
2) How much Perl do you reckon people can comfortably take in one
sitting? I'm in the nice position of being able to spread the training
in short sesssions over several weeks so that people don't get
overloaded (most will never have done any programming before at all).
Most technical courses I've seen suffer from throwing too much
information at people which results in them not retaining much of it. I
was thinking of 1.5 hours at a stretch and maybe 10 sessions in total
(with exercises in between), to give them a good introduction to the
language.
Any thoughts / advice appreciated.
TTFN
Simon.