Later this week I'll be giving a talk entitled "How to survive your first few months of Perl".
The target audience is a group of programmers from several different languages who haven't dwelled into Perl yet.
The purpose is to provide them with tools and resources that'll ease their first Perl adventures.
Here's what I'm thinking of at the moment:
- Beginner resources (a brief overview of mailing lists, websites, pm groups, CPAN, and perhaps some conferences)
- Data::Dumper
- perldoc and perldoc -q
- a few useful modules (DateTime, WWW::Mechanize, CPAN::Mini, Perl::Tidy, Getopt::Simple, ...)
- Perl on Windows
- Tools of the JAPH (a brief overview of things like Moose, POE, Catalyst, Jifty, Test::*, Perl::Tidy, JSON, XML::Simple, Perl::Critic)
I'm very interested in getting comments and suggestions.
Thank you.
Update: I have now done the presentation. As soon as possible (I'm still at the conference), I'll try to post something about it.
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