perl.trainers...Re: Perl Instruction at NIH by Johan Vromans- January 29, 2007 "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharonigmail.com> writes:> (also, some people have ideological problems with the licensing of> Java libraries)Windows people You must be kidding ;-).-- Johanhttp://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.trainers/2007/01/msg593.html Re: Perl Instruction at NIH by Amir E. Aharoni- January 29, 2007 > Anyone know of any good, free editors for windows I&39;m a vi guy, but on> my Mac for presentations I use TextWrangler because of it&39;s "Run Check> Syntax" feature. Is there a Win equivalentEclipse IDE with the EPIC plugin does some basic Perl 5 editing and debugging.Pro - it&39;s free and cross-platform.Con - it has a lot of bugs itself and Eclipse is a 100+ MB download(also, some people have ideological problems with the licensing ofJava libraries)http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.trainers/2007/01/msg592.html Re: Perl Instruction at NIH by Brad Lhotsky- January 29, 2007 Anytime I&39;ve been _forced_ to use windows, I normally install Cygwin andLiteStep. I know my way around it, but I&39;m not 100% my students will.So I&39;ll have to design examples to do the whole activestate +doubleclick thing.Anyone know of any good, free editors for windows I&39;m a vi guy, but onmy Mac for presentations I use TextWrangler because of it&39;s "Run CheckSyntax" feature. Is there a Win equivalentOn Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:10:52PM -0600, Danny R. Faught wrote:>.http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.trainers/2007/01/msg591.html Re: Perl Instruction at NIH by Danny R. Faught- January 29, 2007 Brad Lhotsky wrote:> I&39;m budgetting> more than 8x factor Randal suggested as I&39;m a MacLinux guy and the> laptops provided for instruction are all WinXP.That&39;s okay - you can make Windows act like Unix when you install Cygwin. It&39;s a bit confusing when you try to mix the two views of the filesystem, e.g., "perl tmpscript.pl" doesn&39;t work in a Cygwin shell if you&39;re using a native Windows build of Perl like ActiveState, and neither does "perl...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.trainers/2007/01/msg590.html Re: Perl Instruction at NIH by Brad Lhotsky- January 29, 2007 I wanted to thank everyoe who replied on and off list. I certainlyunderstand the time it takes to prepare for the class. I&39;m budgettingmore than 8x factor Randal suggested as I&39;m a MacLinux guy and thelaptops provided for instruction are all WinXP.When I do get the course material done, I&39;ll post it on the internet forfree. Thanks again!On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:41:16AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:> >>>>> "Smylers" == Smylers ...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.trainers/2007/01/msg589.html Perl Instruction at NIH by Christopher Hicks- January 29, 2007 On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:42:09PM -0600, Brad Lhotsky wrote:> I&39;d be eternally grateful for any advice or sample material that would> save me some time preparing the class.The Kirrily "Skud" Roberts content is quite good and is available from http:wiki.fini.netbinviewPerlClassSkudContentI&39;ve been meaning to revise it for American English and current usage, but its still a great place to start such a project.-- <chris>The whole problem with the world is that fools...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.trainers/2007/01/msg588.html Re: Perl Instruction at NIH by Geoffrey Young- January 29, 2007 Randal L. Schwartz wrote:>>>>>>"Smylers" == Smylers <Smylersstripey.com> writes:> > > Smylers> Generally allow 5 times as long to write material as to present it;> Smylers> that is, allow a week to write a 1-day course. Possibly longer if> Smylers> you&39;re new to writing training materials.> The only thing I would caution on is that "5x" is a bit low. I typically> allocate 8x on a new course (a workday per hour), and.http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.trainers/2007/01/msg587.html Re: Perl Instruction at NIH by merlyn- January 29, 2007 >>>>> "Smylers" == Smylers <Smylersstripey.com> writes:Smylers> Generally allow 5 times as long to write material as to present it;Smylers> that is, allow a week to write a 1-day course. Possibly longer ifSmylers> you&39;re new to writing training materials....Smylers> The way round this is to work backwards:...This is all very excellent advice, echoing what I would have said too.The only thing I would caution on is that "5x" is a bit low. .http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.trainers/2007/01/msg586.html Re: Perl Instruction at NIH by Smylers- January 29, 2007 Brad Lhotsky writes:> I work as a security adminisrtator at a small NIH sub-organization.Hi there. I&39;ve no idea what NIH is, but I suspect it doesn&39;t matter formy response.> Is there any advice for what my expectations of material coverage will> be for a 9-4 class Generally allow 5 times as long to write material as to present it; thatis, allow a week to write a 1-day course. Possibly longer if you&39;re newto writing training materials.> I didn&39;t actually have any coding.http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.trainers/2007/01/msg585.html Re: Perl Instruction at NIH by Peter Scott- January 27, 2007 On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:42:09 -0600, Brad Lhotsky wrote:> I&39;d be eternally grateful for any advice or sample material that would> save me some time preparing the class. I&39;m not getting paid for the> class besides the fact that my boss considers the time spent preparing> and instructing "work time". I&39;m not asking for anyone "to do my> homework". I&39;m just asking for any "helpful" advice the veterans would> be willing to bestow on a...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.trainers/2007/01/msg584.html |