Why do we care about Perl?
- 25 Years
- Best
- FSVO
Why do we care about languages?
- Four paradigms
- Imperative
- Object Oriented
- Functional
- Logical
Roasting and Poaching
A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative, functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not fry.
Tom Christiansen
Become a better programmer
- ... by learning more languages
- At least one from each group
- But learning a language requires effort
- An investment
Language Requirements
- Robust
- Features to help in programming
- Not buggy
- Libraries
- Community
- Support to learn and use language
- Ensure language and libraries remain in good condition
- Perl meets these requirements
- Viability
How do we attract a younger audience?
- What kind of experience do they have?
- How to best introduce them to the community
- How to explain the benefits of Perl to them
Who is our target group?
Larry Wall and Soline Mengué
Who is our target group?
- 14+ year olds
- What experience do they have?
- Which languages have they used?
- Which languages do they like?
What attributes should they have?
- Enthusiastic, talented
- Willing to learn
- Willing to be part of the community
What experience do they have?
- Usually learned a programming language at school/college
- .. such as Visual Basic
- Might've learned another language such a Java in spare time
- Java --> game mods
- Objective C --> iOS apps
- Java --> Android apps
- Javascript --> web pages
Get involved in the community?
- IRC Channels!
- Read blog posts
- Subscribe to mailing lists
- Attend Perl Monger meetings
- Attend YAPC
- Speak at YAPC
Why Perl?
- Relate to already known programming language
- Explain in a way beginners would be able to follow
GCI
- Google Code-in
- GSoC
- 13-17 years olds
- Winter (northern hemisphere)
- Tasks
- Points
- Payment
- Mentors
TPF and GCI
- Wesley's prompting
- Florian and Mark
- Submit credible plan to Google
- Tasks in all categories
- Code
- Quality Assurance
- Research
- Training
- Translation
- Documentation
- Outreach
- Community response
The contest
- Started on 21st November 2011, 08:00 UTC
- IRC channel
- mibbit link
- PG 13
- Students require guidance
- Setting up environment
- git and github
- Edit the template
Mentoring
- One task at a time
- Mentors' time
- 50 mentors
Translations
- Fluency in two languages
- Smaller pool of mentors
Results
- 89 students
- 162 tasks completed
- Final pool of 392 tasks
This year
- Programme not announced
- GSoC conference
- Organisation
- Tasks
- Mentors
- Adminstrators
Hire Me!
- I'll be available shortly
Conclusion
- Critical mass for viability
- GCI wasn't perfect
- But it was a success
- All credit to our 50 mentors
Stars of the Show
moshe742,
Alan Haggai Alavi,
Alex Teslik,
Vyacheslav Matyukhin,
David Precious,
Jess Robinson,
Chisel,
Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯,
Devin Austin,
Mike Doherty,
Duke Leto,
Eden Cardim,
Breno Guimarães de Oliveira,
Hugmeir,
Ian Norton,
Jennifer Maldonado,
Joel Berger,
Kevin A. McGrail,
Lubos Kolouch,
Marcus Ramberg,
mdk,
Mirko Westermeier,
Christian Walde,
Mark Gardner,
Moritz Lenz,
Michele Beltrame,
Michael J South,
Olaf Alders,
Michał Wojciechowski,
Pavel Vlasov,
Florian Ragwitz,
Paul Johnson,
Steffen Schwigon,
Daniel Woods,
Peter Rabbitson,
Richard Foley,
Robin Smidsrød,
Michael G Schwern,
Shlomi Fish,
Simon Foutaiz,
Сергей Романов,
Stephan,
Gabor Szabo,
Tomas Doran,
Tadeusz Sośnierz,
Uri Bruck,
Matthew Horsfall,
Sebastian Wötzel,
zby,
Enrique Nell