Introduction message
Jacinta Richardson
I know this is a *very* quiet list, but I thought I'd say hi, since I've finally
(after 4 or so years) gotten around to subscribing! For those who don't
recognise me, I'm jarich from PerlMonks and use.perl, I'm the co-director of
Perl Training Australia and I write and maintain most of PTA's training
materials. I'm also subscribed to most of the PM groups in the Southern
Hemisphere and some of the ones in the North. Mostly I just pester them with
invitations to the Open Source Developers' Conference (which I help run), but I
do answer questions if they ever get asked.
Things I'd like to get out of this mailing list are as follows:
* What (publicly accessible) courses still need to be written?
There are a great many Intro to Perl courses/pages/slides
out there on the web. Just do a search for perlintro.pdf
You'll find the perldoc by Kirrily, Netizen's original notes,
our notes, and many other people's notes. Obviously we're not
missing intro material. Likewise for Intermediate material
(references, packages, modules, objects etc).
I'm not talking books here, unless the book exists as course
materials. I'm wondering what topics people are left
learning on their own. For example I love the coffee-stain
book, but I'm not sure I could use it as course material. Are
there course materials out there somewhere on testing? We have
some of our own of course, attached to our Security course.
Is there a course on POD, for example?
* How much success do other trainers have marketing non-beginner
courses? We're finding it *really* hard. We sell heaps of introductory
courses and our course attendees love us. But even when we have demand
from programmers, both they and we have difficulty selling the advanced
training to management.
* Is there value in course review, content development (or even course
structure development) on this list?
I am aware that this list is populated by professional trainers, that we all are
doing this not only because we love it, but because it makes us money. I'm not
trying to get you to divulge your secrets, I'd just like to throw up some topics
for discussion. The above list are things I'd like to know. Perhaps we can
share sources of ideas on the first, hints on the second and work together on
the third...
All the best,
J
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