About the course
This course provides an introduction to Perl's code syntax, an interpreted programming language. Perl combines the flexibility of general-purpose programming languages, such as C or C ++, with many of the features of popular UNIX tools, such as grep, tr, sed, and awk.
The result is a language especially suited for performing complex searches and manipulations of text or data stored in text format. Perl's flexibility and extensibility via additional modules allow it to be readily used to access and manipulate many types of non-textual data with equal ease.
ideal for
The course is for those who want to learn to write scripts and applications using Perl. Perl has a very rich set of operators, regular expressions, and built-in functions, in addition to a terse syntax.
Objectives
This course is specially designed for people who need to start from very little knowledge and learn the language. It’s designed to help you over the syntax hurdle by exposing you to that syntax. The course also provides an introduction to Perl’s key built-in and library functions and how to use object-oriented features.
Prerequisite Knowledge
We assume that participants have some previous programming experience, with either a procedural or object-oriented language such as Visual Basic, Delphi, C, C++, Java, or a UNIX shell. No previous familiarity with Perl is required.
