I enjoyed it. I partnered up with Alex and we looked at the OO model together. We covered quite a bit in a short time: accessors, inheritance, OO, sigils, self, privacy and a look at some meta^ things.
I learnt quite a bit from the way Alex approaches learning something and also testing theories in the code. I think learning from how others learn is also really valuable - and that comes out of the exploring phase. I think the idea of having focused coding tasks is a good one - fortunately TMTOWTDI so when we come back together we'll have some interesting differences to discuss and learn from. So generally I think the format is a good one: break up and explore -> come back and report. So I'd suggest: 1) break up into pairs and different topics (supported by little coding problems) 2) rotate pairs and topics 3) come back together to discuss The three topics could be: objects, operators and parcels + subs. You could spend 40 min on each of these doing 7 small topic questions. Some of the questions should be in the style - convert this Perl5 to Perl6. This will ground people in what they know already etc. Nige
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