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Course: Fundamentals of Perl Programming with Computer Lab
On-line registration has closed. For upcoming courses and more information, please contact the office at 781-229-1530 Ext 2.
| Instructor: | Jeffrey Goldberg, Qualware Instructional Services |
| Date: | October 27, 29, 31, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Location: | WPI’s Waltham Campus, 60 Hickory Drive, Waltham, MA. (Tentative) |
| Text: | Learning Perl (3rd Edition) by Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Phoenix, O’Reilly & Associates |
Prerequisite: Individuals with minimal prior programming knowledge or experience, but not necessarily in Perl. Some high level modular programming concepts would be helpful.
Class Description: By the use of lectures, demonstrations and lab exercises, this mini course will teach attendees how to effectively use the Perl programming language, one of the best scripting and web CGI languages on UNIX platforms. Students will learn Perl syntax, how variables, data structures and functions are handled in Perl, searching techniques including using regular expressions, and how to access and manipulate files.Topics such as database connectivity, cgi web scripting and using objects in Perl may be addressed if time permits.
Targetted for: Individuals with some prior programming knowledge and/orscripting experience, along with exposure to using Unix as a user. This class is ideal for individuals that want to learn Perl from the ground up. The class will proceed at a pace that will allow most individuals, with the willingness to learn this material, to keep up with the class.
Handouts: Copies of the course outline slides will be provided along with relevant handouts when appropriate.
Content summary:
Class 1 - An Overview of Perl: Getting started, and introduction to Perl and the power of the language, comments and syntax, quoting, data types and scalars variables, assignment statements, mathematical operators, console input and output, conditional constructs, Boolean expressions, logical connecting operators, control flow branching and looping, scalar operators including numeric and string. Introduction to regular expression (RE) pattern matching.
Class 2 - The Gory Details: Variables, data type and scalars review, including topics such as auto conversion, auto-increment/decrement, advanced assignment operators and operator precedence, relational operators, bitwise logical operators, and short-ciruit logical operators. Then on to the details of using regular expressions, lists, list literals, range operators, splits and joins, arrays, sub-elements, max subscript operator, foreach, stacks and queues, push, pop, and shifts. Finally, an introduction to hashes and associative arrays, keys input/output redirection and special variables is provided.
Class 3 - Using Associative Arrays, Procedures and Databases: More details and examples on using associative arrays, keys and values, sorting, and input/output.m Discussion on the benefit of using local variables in Perl, passing arguments to subroutines and returning back values. More on special Perl variables, file open statements and file handles, ARGV for retrieving arguments from the command line, scope and lifetime. Discussions on Perl access of environment variables, Perl packages, symbol table and namespace. More labs to program, including the use of Perl along with SQL statements to access databases, demonstrations of use of Perl in Web sites, CGI programming and course wrapup.
Lecturer’s biography: Jeffrey Goldberg is a long time innovative user of UNIX and Internet services. Mr. Goldberg currently develops and teaches courses on Unix Fundamentals, Shell and Perl Programming, Unix System Administration and Security, TCP/IP Network Administration in a Multi-Platform Environment, Introduction to Programming, Basic and Advanced Visual Basic Programming incorporating SQL Database Access, Web Technologies such as VB Script, Java Script, Java, Visual ‘C’ and ‘C++’, for Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Boston University. Mr. Goldberg iscontinually adding new cutting-edge technology to his curriculum, and accepts requests for customized on-site corporate training classes. New course available this fall: Development of Dynamic Web Pages Using Apache, SQL and PHP on a Unix Server. Besides operating Qualware Instructional Services, Mr. Goldberg is also a principal of Qualware Consulting Group, which designs electronics for fault tolerant networks, specialized network adapter hardware and embedded customized controller cards. Mr. Goldberg has recently form a new company called Qualware Internet Services specializing in Internet/Intranet security, application servers, web hosting, and dynamic web applications. For more information, e-mail to training@qualware.com or contact Mr. Goldberg at 781-229-1530 or j.goldberg@ieee.org or www.consultme.com/qualware
copywrite 2003 Qualware Instructional Services and Jeffrey Goldberg.
Course Fee Schedule:
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REGISTRATION RECEIVED BY October 13, 2003 |
REGISTRATION. RECEIVED AFTER October 13, 2003 |
| IEEE MEMBERS $525 | IEEE MEMBERS $550 |
| NON-MEMBERS $550 | NON-MEMBERS $595 |
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