Perl Fundamentals : The Basic Elements of Perl Every Developer S

Perl Fundamentals

Peter Scott

The Basic Elements of Perl Every Developer Should Learn


4+ Hours

of Video Instruction



In this unique video package, renowned Perl author and speaker Peter Scott takes you through the fundamental elements of the Perl 5 language so that you have a strong foundation for creating robust Perl programs and learning more advanced aspects of the language.



Even if youve never run a Perl program before, youll learn what you need to know to get started on every popular platform. Scott advances through the language in a logical progression, from the basics of printing strings to the use of regular expressions for pattern matching and text manipulation. In between, he covers the core components of the language, demonstrating through many examples exactly how each one works. In the final lesson, he shows the power of Perls objects and modules for writing web programs. A uniquely valuable aspect of this video is Scotts demonstrations of many common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Youll learn a carefully crafted subset of the language that enables you to create powerful, robust programs while avoiding the traps that can result from learning Perl in the wrong sequence.



These practical, easy-to-use videos allow you to get the multimedia experience of a live instructor at your own pacewhenever you want. You get the benefit of Scotts expertise as a decade-long Perl trainer and author of Perl Medic and Perl Debugged at your fingertips, so you can get started on mastering Perl. After a few hours with this DVD, you will be gaining entry into the market of thousands of jobs managing millions of lines of Perl, the worlds most popular scripting language.


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Peter Scott is the author of Perl Medic (2004) and Perl Debugged (2001), both from Addison-Wesley. A graduate of Cambridge University and former Jet Propulsion Laboratory developer, hes been a Perl trainer since 1998 and taught Perl at top institutions as well as at prominent conferences such as the Open Source Conference and Software Development Expo. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife Grace, two cats, and a loud parrot, and enjoys kayaking.

System Requirements

Operating System: Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, or Mac OS X

Multimedia: DVD drive, 1280 x 960 or higher display, and sound card with speakers

Computer: 500MHz or higher, 128MB RAM or more

Table of Contents

Lesson 1 Introduction: Creating and Running Your First Perl Program; Error Exits; Diagnostics

Perl Ports

Perldoc

Perl Versions

Program Editors

Preparing Perl Programs

Perl Syntax

Input and Output Handles

Lesson 2 Arithmetic and String Operations with Scalar Variables; Conditional Statements

Scalar Naming Rules

Literal Number and Literal String Rules

Interpolation

Math Operators

Logical Operators

Operator Shortcuts

Strictness and Warnings

The Game of Life

Lesson 3 Arrays, Lists, Looping Statements, and Command Line Arguments

Literal Lists

Array Operations

The Command Line

Context

Loop Control Statements

The Spaceship Operator

Tripartite For Loop

Lesson 4 Making Common Tasks Simple with Hashes; Logical Shortcuts

Here Documents

Logical Shortcuts

Trinary Operator

Lesson 5 Defining and Calling Subroutines to Make Reusable Code

Filetest Operators

Subroutines

Scoping

Lesson 6 Reading and Writing Files; Effective Use of Perl's Implicit Variable

The Diamond Operator

Chomp

Opening Files

Filehandles

The $_ Variable

Lesson 7 Using Regular Expressions to Match and Change Text

Regular Expressions

Character Classes

Lesson 8 Finding and Using Perl Modules and the Perl Portal; Perl CGI and Web Programs

Module Documentation

Appendix A Installing Perl

Configuring Perl

For Further Reading

AppendixB Perl Core Modules

AppendixC Commonly Useful CPAN Modules

Bibliography