On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:17:44PM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> People want to build web sites not
> necessarily become fluent in Perl programming and that's not such a crime.
Along with an earlier poster, I agree with this if that's what they're
going to be doing with their skillsets. For the Web Academy that our
company does, we take the Perl course that I do and remove anything that
does not directly apply to the labs for the web section and this
is the perl we teach. (This _is_ a brutal paring-down.)
The later labs (which is the whole point of the course) are activities
geared to producing a complete and fully-functional web site backed with
a MySQL database, professionally done layouts, integrated Javascript
and very common things you'd find on the web.
The early perl labs get adjusted as well so that they're web-centric. And
it's not a bad thing at all. In fact, we stole the idea from Microsoft
because people learn VBScript all of the time when they're in an ASP
course. The language is secondary to the task at hand.
However, our normal Perl offering is still a fairly benign general-purpose
language class with the expected labs (data manipulation, sysadmin, some
web, etc...) and the full courseware.
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