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Find out what they do in their everyday life and show them how Perl makes their life easy. Remember, these are first and second year students.

That's four hours. After that, let them lead the discussion - ask them what they think Perl can do for them.

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Re: Re: Requesting suggestions for one day Perl course
by talexb (Chancellor) on Mar 01, 2004 at 18:10 UTC

    These students have been using C++ and .NET -- I plan to ask the instructor what assignments they've been doing recently, and see if I can take one or two of the tougher ones and doing it in a single line of Perl. I'm hoping for the 'dropped jaw' look. :)

    I'm also going to talk about meta-subjects, such as this web site and the other Perl web sites that are available, as well as talk about the Perl community and YAPC::NA.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    Life is short: get busy!

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      Maybe then it is a good idea to not pull them out of an environement they are used to but using .NET Perl. It is fully integrateable into Visual Studio.
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        Really? I imagined showing them some stuff from the command line, but if I can set them up to use Perl from within Visual Studio (which I assume they have) that would be dynamite.

        Do you have any references for this?

        Alex / talexb / Toronto

        Life is short: get busy!

        Update:Thanks to esskar, I have found the appropriate page on ActiveState's web site is here.

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