> I'm just slightly concerned over the execution, particularly of the
> class exercises as the end of each section. Can anybody who's done this
> kind of thing before offer advice on any pitfalls I ought to be aware
> of?
One thing that kept boning me was incompatibilities between the DOS
shell
> I'd recommend Matt Wright's code -- it has many pedagogical uses:
>
> * demonstrating how working with Perl rather than against it can make
> code much simpler and easier to understand (by taking a section of
> his code and rewriting it)
>
> * practising reading badly-written code
For my conference talks and corporate classes, I make my slides with a
home-grown piece of software, called 'txt2slides'. The software is a
big pile of hacks, but I'm very happy with it. txt2slides takes a
slide file, which is almost plain text, and turns it into a series of
HTML files, one per
> we hacked up an XML version of the slides,
That sounds like a nasty lot of typing.
> Perlpoint, a similar program, does about the same thing the this
> or txt2slides does,
Yes, Tom wrote perlpoint, and it's very nice. I've used it for
several hours' worth of material. But I don't think it
