Re: Pre-requisites
[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz))
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>>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan Torkington <[email protected]> writes: Nathan> [email protected] writes: >> Ugh. Yet another course with one trainee who knows *no* Unix, can't use >> an editor, and has never programmed before... despite the clear >> pre-requisites Nathan> I don't mind rank beginners, but I want to be teaching a beginners Nathan> class to a room full of them. A lone beginner in a class of advanced Nathan> people inevitably gets the shaft. I feel your pain. I'm amazed at the number of people I get (about one in each class) that believe that "since HTML is a programming language, Perl can't be that much harder". <sigh> And yes, I feel your pain as well. I usually tell them "yeah, I'm not gonna say some of this will fly over your head, and feel free to ask all the questions you want, but we really do need to keep moving through some of this stuff to stay on the timeline sometimes." -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!