Introduction to Perl 5

Course Description:

This course is designed to teach beginning programmers how to take advantage of PERL's excellent system-administration capabilities. Students will gain a solid background in the language, learning how to use all of its major features and functions, including variables, operators, functions, and flow control.

Learning Objectives:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Write effective PERL programs for common system-administration tasks
• Take advantage of regular expressions--even in other languages
• Understand, use, and modify PERL programs written by other people
• Create quick, one-liner programs for simple everyday tasks

Prerequisites:

• Basic programming experience
• Experience running simple programs

Required Software:

• PERL 5.003 or later (free download)
• A Web browser of your choice

Platform Support:

You can take this course on computers running Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX.