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Excellent! We need more people from the tech community to mentor and teach the next generation. I was recruited to do a similar class, but I had to teach in VB(agh....stupid school site license). I found that most kids are intrested in two things: 1) They want some sort of finished product that they can use and 2) video games are very exciting to them.

Since your using Perl, you might be able to do a web based project with them. Something like a message board or very simple chat program. Just make sure that when your done teaching them, they have something that they can use and show off.

Good luck!

In reply to Re: Teaching a class by dhable
in thread Teaching a class by jonjacobmoon

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