Introduction To Perl Programming Course
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Course DescriptionThe scripting language Perl is has extensive features but is easy-to-use. This makes it easy to write concise yet powerful scripts for complex data manipulation and administration. This course gives an introduction to the Perl programming language including more advanced Perl features such as using packages and modules.
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£1475 5 day course Scheduled Dates: 16 January 2012 27 February 2012 16 April 2012 21 May 2012 Location: PTR's Training Centre Wokingham, Berkshire. |
Course pre-requisites:
A Programming Introduction class is required. Experience in writing shell scripts is helpful, but not required. If the course is run on UNIX, experience using UNIX and Unix-based text editors is also required.
Topics covered on the 5 day Introduction To Perl Programming course
Introduction
- Key features
- Documentation
- Running Perl
- The Perl Environment
Basic Concepts
- Values and variables
- Context
- Operators
- Blocks
- Control constructs
- Subroutines
- Functions
- Variable scope
Operators
- Operators Versus Functions
- Operator Types and Categories
- Precedence and Associativity
Structure, flow and control
- Blocks and compound statements
- Program flow control
- Loops and looping
- Controlling loop execution
Working with scalars
- Value conversion and caching
- Numbers
- Strings
More data types
- Lists and arrays
- Hashes
Input and Output with Filehandles
- IO and Filehandles
- The filehandle data type
Interpolation and regular expressions
- Text interpolation
- Regular Expressions
Subroutines
- Declaring and Calling Subroutines
- Passing Parameters
- Returning Values from Subroutines
Manipulating files and directories
- Files and filenames
- The unary file test operators
- Manipulating Directories
- References
- Complex Data Structures
Packages and Moduless
- Scope
- Packages
- Modules
Course Classification:
Technical Training Course
This is an instructor led training course taught in a classroom based environment.
Scheduled course dates
16 January 2012 to 20 January 2012
27 February 2012 to 02 March 2012
16 April 2012 to 20 April 2012
21 May 2012 to 25 May 2012
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If you would prefer to run this course at your premises as you have several employees to place on the course perhaps, then we are also able to offer onsite Programming Training and bespoke Programming courses