Perl Training Australia - Programming Perl

Trainers:	Paul Fenwick Jacinta Richardson
Length:	5 days
Notes:	Course notes
Target Audience:	Programmers who wish to learn Perl or consolidate their understanding of it. This course is applicable to both those just starting to learn Perl and those who are intermediate Perl programmers without formal training. This course assumes knowledge of basic programming concepts such as loops, conditionals and variables.

This course covers Perl's fundamentals to give an existing programmer sufficient knowledge of Perl to work on most projects.

The first half of this course will introduce the Perl programming language, discuss Perl's variable types, functions, operators, conditionals and subroutines. Once you grasp Perl's basics, the second half will build on that knowledge to cover I/O, complex data structures, file system interaction, modules, packages and objects.

You will learn:

the history and philosophy behind the Perl programming language;
how to write simple Perl scripts and run them from the command-line;
how to use Perl's inbuilt help system, perldoc;
how to use warnings and strict to catch common errors and enforce good programming style;
about Perl's three main data types and how (and when) to use them;
about Perl's most common operators and functions;
how to use Perl's conditional and looping constructs;
how to write and use subroutines;
about Perl's powerful regular expression capabilities and how to apply them to your problem;
how to create, dereference and use references to build complex data structures which allow multi-dimensional arrays and hashes.
how to write and use Perl modules and packages;
how to use Module::Starter to start your modules off on the right foot;
how to write tests;
how to use Perl objects;
how to interact with the file system to read and write files, and read directories;
how to pass commands to the system for execution and the pitfalls therein;