ziggy on Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:56:57 -0400 (EDT) |
Synopsis: Mark-Jason Dominus will be offering a practice Perl tutorial on Thursday, May 11th at the University of Pennsylvania. For more detailed information, read on. -- Adam Forwarded message: > To: phl@lists.pm.org > From: mjd-perl-pm@plover.com > Cc: mjd@plover.com > Subject: Perl Advanced Programming tutorial > Organization: Plover Systems > Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 19:13:41 -0400 > > > This year I'll be doing three tutorials at the big Perl conference in > Monterey. One of them is new; it's called `Advanced Programming > Techniques in Perl'. I need to practice this before I go to Monterey, > so I'll be giving the tutorial in Philadelphia next month. If you > were to attend in Monterey, you would pay $320. But you can come to > my practice session for $5. Any money I have left over after expenses > will be donated to the Free Software Foundation. > > The tutorial will be at 6 PM on Thursday, 11 May at the University of > Pennsylvania Literacy Center at 3910 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. > It will end around 9:30 or 10:00 PM. > > Here's the brochure description: > > Who Should Attend: > > Intermediate Perl programmers and those with some Perl > experience and basic familiarity with packages, objects, > references, and modules. > > We'll expand on the highly successful 'Perl Hardware > Store' talks of the past two Perl conferences, but with a > more serious bent. The Hardware Store talks introduced > powerful programming techniques such as iterators, > memoization, and higher-order computation that are drawn > from the Lisp and functional programming worlds. In this > new tutorial we'll explore these and other techniques in > much greater depth than the Hardware Store talks. > > Course Outline: > > Recursion > Dispatch tables > Caching, memoization, and lazy computation > Iterators > Streams and infinite lists > Higher-order functions: merging, filtering, and reducing > Higher-order functions: composition > Functional parsing > Sideways approaches to object-oriented programming > Constraint systems > Control flow alternatives > > Short version: It's about the same stuff that my book will be about. > > You must make an advance reservation; I have room for only 30 people. > To reserve, please send an email message to > > mjd-perl-practice@plover.com > > AFTER 9AM ON SATURDAY APRIL 22. > > I'd like it if this notice could be circulated to other groups that > might be interested, so to give it a chance to circulate, I'm going to > disregard any mail I receive asking for a reservation unless it > arrives after 9AM tomorrow. Can someone send it to PLUG for me? > > If I get more than 30 requests for reservations, articipants will > be selected by me based on some combination of: > > * Promptness of response (ignoring responses that arrive before 9AM) > * Random drawing > * Blatant favoritism > > I wanted to say that I hoped to see lots and lots of people there, but > unfortunately we only have room for 20. > > My grateful thanks to Steve Linberg and to the Penn Literacy Center > for providing the space and AV equipment for my talk. > > Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@plover.com > I am boycotting Amazon. See http://old.plover.com/~mjd/amazon.html for details. > > **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** > **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org** > ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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