Perl Training Australia - Perl Best Practices

Trainer:	Damian Conway
Length:	2 days
Target Audience:	Perl programmers who work as part of a development team or who simply wish to write better, more reliable, more maintainable code. This course is suitable to all levels of Perl skill.

Dr Damian Conway, celebrated Perl speaker, luminaire, and author of Object Oriented Perl (Manning) and Perl Best Practices (O'Reilly), presents a two-day course that explores maintainable, robust, and efficient coding practices in Perl.

One of the major challenges of using Perl in a development environment is that Perl's "More Than One Way To Do It" philosophy often means there are far too many choices when it comes to solving a particular problem with the language. This makes coding standards and the use of best-practice techniques especially important in Perl development.

This course covers best practices for:

Constants, barewords, and references;
Variables, naming conventions, special variables and keys;
Subroutine layout, calling conventions, arguments and prototypes;
Functions and control structures;
Package and modules, naming conventions, interfaces and CPAN;
Object Oriented design, polymorphism, reliable constructors/destructors, encapsulation, and attributes;
Control flow, looping structures, and list processing;
Error handling, warnings, exceptions and reporting;
Input/Output, streams, files, and efficient reading;
Tactical and strategic documentation, comments, POD and consistency;
Interface design, size vs convenience, intuitive design;
Effective use of context, command-line standards, handling of common data formats (including CSV, HTML and XML).