The course will cover basic Perl syntax, including variables and data structures, flow control, functions, reading and writing files, and regular expressions. Instruction will be interspersed with hands-on sessions where you'll put into practice the concepts that you have just learned. Instructors will be available to give each student direct assistance as needed.

After completing this course, you'll be ready to start writing your own Perl programs and you'll be perfectly positioned to enjoy the rest of YAPC::NA, even if this is your first exposure to Perl.

Course Preparations:

Students should bring a laptop, ideally with Perl and a programmer's text editor (such as Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text, Notepad 2, etc.) already installed. Be prepared for an intense day of hands on learning. Code samples and course materials will be provided on site

About the Instructor:

Sawyer X is an experienced Perl programmer with a passion for guiding and mentoring. He's ran a successful Perl beginners course and participates in outreach programs for beginners. His involvement with projects extends beyond the technical contribution and aims at providing a good environment for others while helping new-comers as they make their first steps

This is a hands-on course. Each lecture section is followed by a hands-on exercise section where you put what you've just learned into practice. The instructor will work with each student individually as needed to help you get the most from these exercises.

Students are expected to bring a laptop. You will also be provided with a tarball a week or so before the class is scheduled. This will contain the exercises for the class.

This class has consistently received excellent evaluations from students who've taken it:

• "I thought Dave's class was outstanding. Well prepared and highly valuable content. This course was one of the best organized I've had the opportunity to take." - Chris Fedde
• "It damn sure was a good use! It would've been a huge mistake not taking your class; Moose is a magnificent beast and I couldn't have picked a better primer." - Brian Fraser
• "The class was great. There was a nice balance of material presented to hands-on experimentation, and alternating between lecture and exercises helped nail down concepts." - Philip Monsen

Intended Audience: This class is aimed at Perl programmers who understand object-oriented programming and want to learn how to do it with Moose. It is not suitable for Perl beginners or for people without any OO experience. OO experience in other languages besides Perl is sufficient, as long as you also have a good grasp of Perl syntax, particularly method call syntax.

Supplies Provided: I will provide a tarball via email containing the class exercises.

Supplies Needed: Students are expected to bring a laptop with a recent version of Perl and the editor of their choice.

Outline:

1. Moose Concepts
2. Moose Classes
3. Roles
4. Basic Attributes
5. Method Modifiers
6. Types
7. Advanced Attributes
8. Bonus: A Brief Tour of MooseX

Speaker Bio:

Dave Rolsky has been a Perl developer since 1999, and has created or contributed to dozens of CPAN modules. He is a member of the Moose core development team, and in early 2009 completed a TPF grant to substantially rewrite and expand the Moose documentation. He is also the co-author of Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason and RT Essentials.

He spends a lot of his free time on animal advocacy with Compassionate Action for Animals, working on a variety of programs including fundraising and planning Twin Cities Veg Fest .

This is a hands-on course. Each lecture section is followed by a hands-on exercise section where you put what you've just learned into practice. The instructor will work with each student individually as needed to help you get the most from these exercises.

Students are expected to bring a laptop. You will also be provided with a tarball a week or so before the class is scheduled. This will contain the exercises for the class.

Intended Audience

This class is aimed at anyone who wants to learn Go. I will assume that you have experience programming in at least one other language, but no assumption are made about what language that is, nor are you expected to be familiar with Go.

Supplies Provided: I will provide a tarball via email containing the class exercises.

Supplies Needed: Students are expected to bring a laptop with the most recent version of Go installed and an editor of their choice.

Outline

0. $GOROOT, the Go Toolchain, and the Go Ecosystem
0.1 go build and go run
0.2 gofmt
0.2 golang.org
0.4 godoc and godoc.org
1. Basics
1.0 Go Style Naming
1.2 Variables, Type Declarations, & Function Calls
1.3 Data Structures
1.4 Unit Testing with "go test"
1.5 Defining Functions
1.6 Control Structures
1.7 Importing
1.8 Error Handling
2. Types, Interfaces, and OO in Go
2.0 Method Calls
2.1 Defining Types
2.2 Interfaces
2.3 Type Switch
3. Packages
3.0 go get
3.1 File Layout
3.2 Importing Your Own Packages
3.3 Package Management
3.4 Reproducible Builds with Godep
4 Concurrency with Channels
4.0 Goroutines
4.2 Fire and Forget Example
4.2 Message Passing Example
4.3 Parallelization

Speaker Bio:

Dave Rolsky has been a Perl developer since 1999, and has created or contributed to dozens of CPAN modules. He is a member of the Moose core development team, and in early 2009 completed a TPF grant to substantially rewrite and expand the Moose documentation. He is also the co-author of Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason and RT Essentials.

He spends a lot of his free time on animal advocacy with Compassionate Action for Animals, working on a variety of programs including fundraising and planning Twin Cities Veg Fest .

Intended audience

Perl beginner programmers, web beginners and web intermediates

Familiarity with Perl and at least a brief understanding of web programming is required.

Required materials

Each student must bring:

• Laptop - mandatory
• Perl + Editor - mandatory
• Preinstalled modules:
  - Dancer2 >=0.159000 - Starman - Test::More >= 0.98 - HTTP::Request
• Git
• cURL (if Linux/Mac - not essential)

Speaker Biography

Sawyer X has been a core developer of Dancer probably too quickly after it came into the world. He has led Dancer and now leads the new branch of Dancer: Dancer2. He's the current project leader and main developer.

Mickey is a core developer in Dancer2 and has provided some of the bigger changes including major overhaults of core components, along with massive cleanups of the inner workings of Dancer.

Both Sawyer and Mickey currently work on Dancer (amongst other projects) at Booking.com.

The primary focus of this course is client-side web development.

You are going to learn how to create a mobile-enabled, responsive web application using the following pieces of technology: HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, Twitter Bootstrap, Handlebars, and AngularJS on the front-end.

We are also going to use MongoDB and Perl Dancer 2 on the server.

Class Description

At the beginning of the course we are going to introduce the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. We'll touch on some of the features that are usually mentioned as HTML5 some of which are actually part of JavaScript.

Then we are going to take an already existing web-site that provides an API sending data formatted as JSON, and we are going to write a single-page client-side application for it.

Finally we are going to build a small server-side application using Perl Dancer 2 and MongoDB.

Audience

This course is for you if from time to time you need to build internal web applications, or if you'd like to convert a CGI based application to modern technologies, or if you just want to be the next Twitter or Facebook.

The course is 2 days long.

Participants are expected at least intermediate knowledge of Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, or some other high-level language. As a minimum they are expected to understand arrays, hashes (called dictionaries in Python and associative arrays in PHP).

The students will get the training material in PDF format and they will get plenty of example files. They are expected to bring their own computer running Linux, Unix, OSX, or MS Windows. More specific instructions will be given a few days prior to the training class.

About the Speaker

Gabor has been using Perl since 1995 and teaching it since 2000. He has given Master classes at several previous Perl conferences. Both in North America and in Europe. Gabor runs the Perl Weekly newsletter, the Perl Maven web sites and the Code Maven web site. He is the author and maintainer of several Perl modules. He is one of the contributors of MetaCPAN.

http://szabgab.com/about.html