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Overview
A thorough and fast paced introduction to the fundamentals of programming in the PERL programming language. The course will guide students through the syntax and practical application of PERL, which is especially useful to System Administrators, Web Developers, Systems Integrators, and Application Programmers. This course in conjunction with PRL-200: Advanced PERL Programming Topics provides a solid foundation in the world of PERL. This is an excellent introduction into the world of programming for those students with little practical programming experience too!
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Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with basic UNIX administration tasks and tools. A reasonable understanding of shell scripting is a plus.
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Topics
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Introduction
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What is PERL?
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Variables in PERL
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Arrays in PERL
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Hashes in PERL
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IO and File IO in PERL
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PERL operators and syntax
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Flow Control
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Basic Regular Expressions
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Subroutines
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Rules of Quoting and Interpolation in PERL
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Skills Gained
In this course, students will learn to:
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Understand the history and uses of PERL
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Effectively use the three fundamental types of PERL variables: Scalars, Arrays, and Hashes
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Use PERL's built in operators for numeric and string operations
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Use the flow control and looping statements in PERL and their unique variants
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Use the powerful built in Regular Expression syntax of PERL
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Understand how PERL's quoting operators work and how their associated interpolation works
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How to write subroutines in PERL and how to pass variables into and receive data from a subroutine
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Find additional open source add-ons to PERL
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