Perl Education

Fully Immersive World Of Perl

Teen Perl is the code name of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for teens and young adults.
The game is a combination of education and entertainment.
Teen Perl's target audience includes both gamers and coders.
Players earn in-game rewards by learning real-life skills.
Simple Perl scripts are used as magic spells to build confidence and increase experience points.
Advanced players utilize Perl algorithms to build custom features.
The goal is to use video games to teach teens Perl.

Social & Technology Clubs

Perl Teens is a meetup group for teens and young adults.
Club members make new friends and participate in fun activities.
Every Perl Teens chapter is sponsored by a nearby Perl Mongers group.
Chapters are youth led, with Perl Mongers providing adult support.
Planning meetings are held in local libraries and members' homes.
Activities include high-tech field trips, Teen Perl gaming parties, and hackathon lock-ins.
New Perl Mongers groups are formed by librarians and teachers and parents where none already exist.
Annual super activities are held during each official Perl conference.
The goal is to use social activities to teach teens Perl.

Be Prepared With Perl

Space Scouts and Perl Scouts are co-ed youth leadership groups for teens and young adults, officially chartered through the Boy Scouts of America.
Like Perl Teens, Scouts make new friends at fun activities.
Like Perl Teens, Scout units are youth led, with adult Scouters and Perl Mongers providing adult support.
Scout units provide more structure with a focus on rank advancement.
Scout units provide more youth leadership opportunities and official youth leadership training courses.
Planning meetings are held at facilities provided by the adult chartered organization, which can be a Perl Mongers group or any other family-friendly business or non-profit or community group.
Activities include week-long high-adventure trips, model rocketry competitions, and outdoorsmanship and seamanship experiences.
Joint super activities are held in cooperation with Perl Teens chapters during annual Perl conferences.
The goal is to use Scouting activities to teach teens Perl.

Professional Software Certification

Certified Youth Programmer is an official award available to teens and young adults.
Students work through standard coding exercises via the CYP curriculum or the Teen Perl educational gaming platform.
A minimum of 18 months of regular Perl activities must be logged, such as Perl Teens meetup clubs and Perl conferences.
All students must complete a final project where they lead a team of their peers in building a real-life software system.
Upon successful completion, students receive a framed diploma during their graduation ceremony.
CYP graduates earn a significant advantage in Perl job interviews and college applications.
The goal is to use professional certification to teach teens Perl.

Perl Rank Advancement

The Programming Merit Badge is an official award available to youth already registered in the Boy Scouts of America.
Scouts work through coding exercises as well as non-coding activities.
Safety training includes the Cyber Chip online youth protection course.
Topics covered include computing history, software careers, and intellectual property.
The completed merit badge counts as credit toward additional BSA STEM Nova awards.
The goal is to use Scouting rank advancement to teach teens Perl.

The Llama Book

This book is the original and most popular introduction to Perl.
Each chapter includes coding exercises, along with complete solutions in the appendix.
The New York Times says "Much of the Internet ... has been built by programmers who got their start by reading ... Learning Perl".
More than 500,000 copies have been sold world-wide.
The most up-to-date release is the 7th edition.
Subsequent books include Intermediate Perl and Mastering Perl.
The goal is to use standard literature to teach teens Perl.

The Roadrunner Book

This book is the definitive introduction to RPerl, the Perl compiler.
Each chapter corresponds to the respective chapter in Learning Perl.
Like Learning Perl, chapters include coding exercises with complete solutions in the appendix.
The content is a work in progress and is subject to change with new versions of RPerl.
Learning RPerl may be used as a companion book to Learning Perl, or as a stand-alone textbook.
The goal is to use specialized literature to teach teens Perl.