Learning to Program with Perl

For a long time Perl has been a popular language among those programming for the first time. Although it is a powerful language many of its features mean make it especially suited to first time programmers as it reduces the complexity found in many other languages. Perl is also one of the world's most popular languages which means there are a huge number of resources available to anyone setting out to learn it.

Course Content

  • Getting Started with Perl
  • Conditions, Arrays, Hashes and Loops
  • File Handling
  • Regular Expressions
  • Subroutines, References and Complex Data Structures
  • Perl Modules
  • Interacting with External Programs
  • Cross Platform Issues and Compiling

Course Material

Licence: Other (Non-Commercial)

Keywords: perl, Babraham Institute

Authors: Simon Andrews


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