Description: This workshop presents an alternative approach to learning Perl. Using the different aspects of the language - the one liner, the short script, the debugger, and the full-fledged application - it presents the information needed to write a Perl program combined with the practices necessary to write good programs.

This approach is still under development, and 45 minutes is not quite sufficient time to turn beginners into gurus, but it's a start .... and maybe this workshop will set you off on a path of good software engineering.