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Class Outline

    Week One, Introduction
  • What is Perl ?
  • Creating a Perl Program
  • Scalar Data (Numeric and Strings, Variables)
  • Operators
  • Evaluation and Assignments
  • Retrieving data from STDIN
    Week Two, Flow Control
  • Statement Blocks
  • if and unless statements
  • while and until statements
  • for loops
  • foreach statement
  • Putting it together...
    Week Three, Lists, Arrays, Hashes
  • Using Lists
  • Creating and using Arrays
  • List and Array functions
  • Creating and using hashes
  • Hash functions
  • Putting it all together...
    Week Four, Data files, I/O
  • Standard file descriptors
  • Opening files
  • Reading and writing files
  • Formatting
  • File handling functions
  • Putting it together...
    Week Five, Advanced Flow and Subs
  • Last, Next and Redo
  • Using Labels
  • The goto statement
  • Intro to the perl subroutine
  • Variable scope
  • Reference and calls
    Week Six, A touch of CGI !
  • What is CGI ????
  • Environment variables
  • Printing to an HTML page
  • Review...
  • Practice...
  • Putting it together...

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