This is complete vaporware at present, although it maybe won't be, starting tomorrow...

A friend's daughter, who is in her early teens, wants to learn how to program, so I had her download ActivePerl today and install it. Haven't gotten to any actual teaching yet, though. I was originally planning on teaching her mainly through e-mail, but it turns out that her mom wants to learn as well. So, I've decided the best way to do this, without repetition, is to simply write a Perl tutorial in HTML, and post it on the Web. Neither of my "students" has had any previous programming experience, so the tutorial will be written at a very basic level.

I guess all I can say for sure is that I'll keep you and the Monks other posted on my progress, if anyone is interested.

In reply to Re: Not-So-FAQ about learning Perl by Falkkin
in thread Not-So-FAQ about learning Perl by ichimunki

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