Yes please! I'd sign up in a heart beat. _______________________________________________________________________________ Andrea Medina-Smith Metadata Librarian NIST Gaithersburg andrea.medina-sm...@nist.gov 301-975-2592
Be Green! Think before you print this email. -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joe Hourcle Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 8:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I? On Feb 15, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Jason Griffey <grif...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people have absolutely no clue >> how code translates into instructions for the magic glowing screen >> they look at all day. Even a tiny bit of empowerment in that arena >> can make huge differences in productivity and communication abilities >> > > This is what it boils down to. > > C4l is dominated by linux based web apps. For people in a typical > office setting, the technologies these involve are a lousy place to > start learning to program. What most of them need is very different > than what is discussed here and it depends heavily on their use case and > environment. > > A bit of VBA, vbs, or some proprietary scripting language that > interfaces with an app they use all the time to help with a small > problem is a more realistic entry point for most people. However, > discussion of such things is practically nonexistent here. Well, as you mention that ... I'm one of the organizers of the DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop : http://dcbpw.org/dcbpw2013/ Last year, we targeted the beginner's track as a sort of 'Perl as a second language', assuming that you already knew the basic concepts of programming (what's a variable, an array, a function, etc.) Would it be worth us aiming for an even lower level of expertise? -Joe ps. Students & the unemployed are free ... $25 before March 1st, $50 after; will be April 20th at U. Baltimore. We're also in talks with a training company to have either another track of paid training or a separate day (likely Sunday); they wouldn't necessarily be Perl-specific.