I've been asked to give a quick intro to Perl (1 hour) to my department. So I need to come up with something for a group of up to 12 people with varied levels of programming background. My goal is to introduce some Perl culture and give enough of an intro that an experienced programmer can write simple scripts, and anyone will be encouraged to investigate further.

Please look at my outline and let me know what you think. Am I trying to cover too much? What should I leave out? What am I missing? Should I have posted this in Meditations? Here's a rough outline of what I have planned:

  1. kinds of comptuer languages
    • interp vs compile
    • strongly vs loosely typed
  2. Perlisms
    • TMTOWTDI
    • Context
    • Whimsy - Poetry, JAPH, Golf, Obfuscation
    • Special variables and short cuts
  3. Perl Programming
    • Hello World
    • Scalars, lists, and hashes
    • Flow control
    • operators
    • subroutines
    • File IO
    • Using Modules
    • Examine a sample program
  4. CGI
    • HelloWorld.cgi
    • CGI.pm
    • POD & showPOD (my POD gateway)
    • General CGI concepts
    • Examine sample program
  5. Resources
    • Web
      • CPAN
      • www.perl.com
      • perlmonks
    • man perl
      • perldoc
      • perlvar
      • perltoot
    • Dead trees
      • Nutshell
      • Learning Perl (for Win 32)
      • Perl Cookbook
      • The Perl Journal
      • Programming Perl
Thanks!

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