Advanced perl class

Hi,

This group hasn't been too active of late, so I
hope you are all still around.

I am thinking of offering an Advanced perl class
through North Harris College - Geoscience Technology
Training Center (NHC-GTTC) (where I teach my
current perl class.)

NHC-GTTC class formats are basically three weeks,
two nights a week, four hours a night for a total
of 24 class hours.   I have a lab with Sun kit,
a 450 and six Ultra2's, running Solaris 2.6.

GTTC being a center for scientists and technical 
people supporting petroleum science, I have thus 
far left CGI and that sort of thing to other venues.

I am thinking that I would have a format something
like:

Week 1
	Day 1	Review of basic perl
	Day 2	pointers, hash of hash, sockets
Week 2
	Day 1	Using perl with Oracle - basic SQL, etc.
	Day 2	Using perl with Oracle - DBM, DBI, etc.
Week 3
	Day 1	Algorithms - part 1
	Day 2	Algorithms - part 2 

I would like to squeeze in TK, but I'm not sure there 
is room.  The Oracle part would focus on the OpenWorks
/ Oracle database, commonly used in petroleum scientific 
computing.

For texts, I am thinking of using

Week 1
	Srinivasan - Advanced Perl Programing
Week 2
	???
Week 3
	Orwant et al, Mastering Algorithms with Perl.

This would add up to a lot of money for texts, but
most of my students have employers who will pay for them.

I would appreciate any advice, comments, suggestions, 
scraps of outlines, encouragement, whatever, that
anyone could provide.

Thanks,

Will

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