Hands-on: PERL Programming Course (Part1)

Three days hands-on course

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Perl is a powerful object-oriented scripting language used extensively across UNIX and Win32 platforms.
It is also the most commonly used Common Gateway Interfacing (CGI) language on the Internet.
Perl's rich set of operators makes it easy to write concise, robust data manipulation programs. It is particularly powerful in manipulating text and other data through extensive use of regular expressions, which give it powerful pattern matching, searching and replacing facilities.
Perl being Object Oriented also allows for the development of reusable tools through Perl’s packages.

Previous experience with a procedural or object-oriented programming language is assumed; familiarity with UNIX tools (e.g., grep, sed, awk, tr) is helpful.
Knowledge of HTML (in particular forms) is useful but not essential for CGI programming aspects of the course.

We see how easy it is to develop very useful, yet compact, applications in Perl 5 as well studying some more complex.
Practical exercises will enable you to learn Perl scripts and apply Perl to particular Operating System, general scripting and Internet applications.
Emphasis will also be placed on surveying and highlighting the built-in functions of the language as well as the standard Perl library.
Other useful widely available Perl libraries (e.g. CGI Library) will also be covered.

This course is valuable for UNIX and Windows NT administrators, Web developers, programmers, users and anyone wishing to use Perl in a variety of application areas.