I've been running some in-house Perl courses for Acxiom. The course I've run most often for them is called "Effective Perl Programming". It's intended to take people who think they know Perl and introduce them to things like use strict, references and complex data structures.

One of the most popular parts is the session where I do a quick overview of the standard Perl modules and CPAN. I point out a couple of dozen of the most useful CPAN modules. Some of them have functional interfaces and other have OO interfaces. I think that by doing that, I can introduce them gently to using OO modules. Once they've got the hang of that, the idea of writing their own objects is a little less scarey. We cover writing modules and (briefly) objects in a later session.

At the end of the course I ask if there are any other courses that they'd be interested in seeing. CGI programming is always first, but OO Perl is usually a pretty close second.

So I guess I should get on with writing that course than :)

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In reply to Re: Reactions to OO-Perl by davorg
in thread Reactions to OO-Perl by pjf

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