I won't be spoon-feeding these students -- I hope to be teaching a university level course in Perl, the Perl Community, and by inference, talking about the Open Source community. To get into this program they had to have adequate C, so I'm going to blaze over for and while loops so we can get on to the cool stuff.

I haven't used Tk and don't want to have to learn stuff for this seminar -- I'll stick with what I know.

Scraping CNN is a neat idea .. I may even see if I can grab an RSS feed from somewhere and show them how it's done in just a few lines of Perl.