Perl Language Essentials Overview/Description Target Audience Prerequisites Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Expertise Level Overview/Description
This course covers the fundamental components of the Perl Language. The individual demonstrations and accompanying commentary will support your understanding of the Perl language, assist in developing your Perl programming skills, and act as a primer for the content of course #2.
Target Audience
Application developers, programmers, and learners considering the use of Perl as an application development language.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
2.5
Lesson Objectives Perl Language Essentials
start the course
describe the Perl language
work with Perl code formatting, naming conventions, and sigils
work with Perl scalar variables
work with numerical data types in Perl
work with strings in Perl
work with the undef property and empty strings
work with namespaces and understand scope in Perl
work with if...else, unless, and ternary conditional statements
work with foreach and C-style for loops
work with while and do...while statements
work with next and last statements in Perl loops
work with Perl given…when statements
create and work with Perl Arrays
display arrays and add a value to an array
insert and remove array values, use pop, push, splice, and array slices
create and access hashes
work with arithmetic, unary, and assignment operators
work with precedence, associativity, and parentheses
work with comparison operators, including exists, eq, gt, ne, and le
work with logical and bitwise operators
work with variable value coercion: strings and numbers
create and work with Perl subroutines
create and work with function parameters: passing values and references
work with variable scope
utilize state to control variable scope
work with anonymous subroutines in Perl
describe built-in Perl functions
work with the fundamental constructs of the Perl language
Course Number: sd_ppes_a01_it_enus
Expertise Level
Beginner