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Perl Tutorial

ambs on 2003-10-27T15:14:51

I work at a Portuguese University and would like to prepare a two days tutorial about Perl. I would like to invite some gurus (not many, some, only) to come and talk.

At the moment, thinking of any of Larry Wall (but I think he will not be interested), Damian Conway, Simon Cozens, Leon Orange Brocard.

Of course I must invite people accordingly with the money I have to pay the trips, and with the contents of the tutorial (which I will define shortly on any next post!)

Any other people you can advice me?

Ok, I understood the idea! MJD is now in my list too!

Randal

inkdroid on 2003-10-27T16:00:58

I would consider Randal Schwartz. He's been introducing people to Perl for a while now, and has a nice list of established courses. I guess I'm biased because I learned Perl from reading his Learning Perl, and wonderful Effective Perl Programming. Larry and Damian are great speakers, but if you are looking at introducing people to Perl Randal would be great pick.

Re:Randal

ambs on 2003-10-27T16:09:14

Randal is undoublty a good choice, but as he works giving courses I do notk now if he would like to give a course free (only with trip and hotel paid). But is another one to contact :)

mjd

jmm on 2003-10-27T16:35:43

Mark Jason Dominus was referred to in a journal entry a couple of months ago. His web site has a standing offer to give a free talk to perl groups if expenses are covered.

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TorgoX on 2003-10-27T17:37:56

Yes, get MJD! He's a superstah, he's fun, and he has days worth of fascinating talks already prepared.

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jdavidb on 2003-10-27T18:17:19

That's what I clicked here to say! But apparently it's already been said.

mjd's teaching style is superb. Somewhere I read he's consistently rated "even higher than Damian."

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petdance on 2003-10-28T18:06:31

Somewhere I read he's consistently rated "even higher than Damian."

It was in his own Conference Presentation Judo talk.

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jordan on 2003-10-27T18:23:32

I can second this. He came by to our local Perl Mongers a few years back. He would have talked well into through the night, except that the venue we were at through us out.

I hear that they reconvened at a local Pub and a good time continued to be had by all, although I couldn't attend.

And... All for free! You cover his expenses and he's there.

A sampling of his wit and wisdom is on-line for your reveiw.

Re:mjd

jordan on 2003-10-27T18:27:28

  • except that the venue we were at through us out.

Doh! I meant to say that "except that the venue we were at threw us out."

Normally, I wouldn't bother with the correction, but I thought I should correct that seeing as non-native English speakers will have enough trouble with my (non)idiomatic english without the solecisms.