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1. To The Introduction to Perl Course itself
2. Perl Capabilities
Interpreted Programming Language
Scanning and Processing Large amounts of text efficiently
Formatting and printing reports easily
Provides built-in Parsing functionality
Provides extensibility via libraries and modules
Contains most C statements and operators
Contains many library functions of the C environment
Contains built-in functionality of awk
Contains extended regular expressions
Contains file manipulation capabilities of Shell Scripts
Contains Process control capabilities of UNIX
3. Perl Notes
Week 1 Notes
Week 2 Notes
Question of the Week (Week 2)
Week 3 Notes
Question of the Week (Week 3)
Week 4 Notes
Question of the Week (Week 4)
Week 5 Notes
Question of the Week (Week 5)
Week 6 Notes
Question of the Week (Week 6)
Week 7 Notes
Question of the Week (Week 7)
Week 8 Notes
4. Perl Tutorials
Reference: Lowe, Vincent D., Perl Programmer's Interactive Workbook,
Prentice-Hall, 1999.
Comments, Command Line Arguments, Shell Environment
Variables
Arrays and Lists
Operating on Arrays or Lists
Functions Operating on Arrays or Lists
Creating and Accessing Hashes
5. Perl Scripts
Text to HTML converter
6. Schwartz & Christiansen Exercises
Chapter 2 Exercises (Scalar Data)
Chapter 3 Exercises (Arrays and List Data)
Chapter 4 Exercises (Control Structures)
Chapter 5 Exercises (Hashes)
Chapter 6 Exercises (Basic I/O)
Chapter 7 Exercises (Regular Expressions)
Chapter 8 Exercises (Functions)
Chapter 9 Exercises (Misc. Control Structures)
Chapter 10 Exercises (File Tests)
7. Coding Conventions
Programming Style Guidelines (Kernighan and Pike)
8. Debugging/Common Programmer Errors
9. Good Coding Examples
10. Perl Efficiencies
11. Perl References
Online and Book References for Perl
12. Useful References
Online (Book and many other) Shopping Comparison Service Site
13. HTML Information
HTML Introduction
HTML Tags Web page examples
Questions? Robert Katz: katz@ned.highline.edu