To be effective at growing the pool of Perl programmers I think Perl
needs to be used in a general course that isn't specifically about Perl
or some specialty that is already well entrenched with Perl.
Exactly. The wolf book would make an excellent text-book for a beginner's
guide to algorythms
Adam Turoff wrote:
- Another reason why Perl is a minority language is that it's not
used in academic curricula.
An interesting point.
Sean Quinlan writes:
I agree. I'd love to hear suggestions how to work on that. We teach some
Perl at BU, both under the bioinformatics
Adam Turoff wrote:
- Another reason why Perl is a minority language is that it's not
used in academic curricula.
An interesting point.
Sean Quinlan writes:
I agree. I'd love to hear suggestions how to work on that. We teach some
Perl at BU, both under the bioinformatics program
Tom Metro said:
A few years ago I hired an instructor to teach a group of junior
developers OO programming.
Next time you're thinking of doing this, shoot me an email.
http://www.greglondon.com/iperl
From zero-perl/zero-OO to basic OO-perl in about a hundred pages.
