I haven't explained much about the students environment, but as far as I can tell they use .NET in Visual Studio running on Windows 2000 (I think the OS is right). If I can drop Perl into a tool that they already know and love (Visual Studio), that's less for them to learn in terms of an editor and an operating system.

I have on loan a laptop loaded with Mandrake 9 .. if I can get that to plug into an overhead for my presentation, then I can fly, but it depends what's available on site. It might have to be a whiteboard-only presentation (ugh).

I would prefer to talk a little about running Perl from the Linux command line .. but I'm not sure how much experience they all have with that animal.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Life is short: get busy!

In reply to Re (6): Requesting suggestions for one day Perl course by talexb
in thread Requesting suggestions for one day Perl course by talexb

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