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[PLUG] Perl Advanced Programming tutorial (fwd)


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.
> 
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