Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is what I think they would need to learn:
>
> a) Get hit over the head a bit with my, local, strict, good programming
> practices. Maybe a quick refresher on how arrays, hashes and suchlike
> really work. (In terms of passing between subroutines and stuff, how
> doing this 'casts' one into the other, the difference between array
> and scalar context.) Maybe a quick refresher on references.
>
> They should know all of this already, but I'd like a course to make
> *sure* they do, if you see what I mean
>
> b) This is how to get objects from CPAN, these are a few critical classes
> that you need to know about. E.g. this is Data::Dumper, it's fscking
> useful. LWP::Simple is your friend. Etc, etc. Something of a quick
> tour.
>
> c) Get to grips with writing decent objects. E.g. this is how bless
> works, etc, etc. This is what OO is about, how @ISA works, etc. With
> examples that are relevant.
d) Debugging
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