I agree with the other posters and would start with hashes etc (say, how to count all unique words in a file. How to find the line numbers of all unique words in a file.)

One thing I'd add is a three minutes overview of what CPAN is. Mention how easy it is to use and that it is the extensive public library that is the Standard, which other languages try to reach. (Show -- don't teach -- a list of example modules. E.g. Inline, Mechanize, treating text files as an array of lines, etc.)

Also tell them the books to start with.

Update: What I tried to say -- you should (a) give the students an idea of the next step and (b) show them some powerful uses which are simple to implement.

In reply to Re: strange responses to inhouse perl training by BerntB
in thread strange responses to inhouse perl training by jim_neophyte

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