EarthWeb asked me to construct a new introductory Perl class for their conference The Bazaar . But in this class the lecures and labs ran simultaneously. The students all had workstatsions, and as I'd show each slide and talk about what was on it, the students would try out an example that demonstrated whatever I was talking about. I was surprised at how well this worked out. One thing the students told me was that they stayed more focused on what was going on than if they had just been listening to a lecture.
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This class will be aimed at intermediate Perl users. Each of these is commonly used, and I'll show briefly what it is good for and how to use it, including surprising applications and little-known but valuable features. But the important part of this class is that we'll also go inside the code and see how these powerful but poorly-understood modules work on the inside. Each one was written by a master Perl programmer and can provide many insights into valuable Perl strategies and tactics. This talk will appear for the first time at Perl Whirl 2000 in June, and at the 4th O'Reilly Perl Conference .