Maybe this is a matter of taste, but I think the Perl debugger might be confusing for the newbie. It has its own commands and doesn't execute programs the way they would normally run. Learning one thing after another, not all simultaneously is very important. I'd start with the most essential features and move on to the "specials" later. But as always, TMWTDI -- so check it out.

^~Django
"Why don't we ever challenge the spherical earth theory?"