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Beginning Perl

RECOMMENDED READING (Not required for the course):
Learning Perl
Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix
O'Reilly & Associates
ISBN: 0-596-00132-0


COURSE DESCRIPTION:

If you have been wanting to learn Perl but haven't gotten past the initial learning 'hump' then this course is for you. By the end you will be able to create simple scripts and understand the basic terminology of Perl. Also provides the background and tools so that you can learn the more advanced features of Perl later on in your own.

KEY OBJECTIVES:

You will learn

bullet Basic language features such as data types
bullet Conditional and looping control structures
bullet How to handle I/O to/from files
bullet Regular expressions
bullet Other special features of the language to maximize your productivity

PREREQUISITES:
Any experience creating a shell script or computer program in any procedural language.

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