Course Overview
This curriculum presents instruction on the foundations of the Perl language. Learners will become familiar with an introduction to Perl, flow control, arrays, and associative arrays. Additional topics covered include external data Perl script, and best practices for Perl.
Includes:
CIW Perl Fundamentals Part 1: Basic Syntax
CIW Perl Fundamentals Part 2: Manipulating Scripts
CIW Perl Fundamentals Part 3: Best Practices
CIW Perl Fundamentals Part 1: Basic Syntax
This is the first course in a three part series that presents students with both theoretical and practical instruction on the foundations of the Perl language. Students will also become familiar with an Introduction to Perl, Flow Control, Arrays, and Associative Arrays.
Learn To
• Identify characteristics of the Perl programming language.
• Identify characteristics of the Perl interpreter.
• Identify how to output data by using the print function.
• Identify the result of a numeric Boolean expression.
• Identify the result of a string Boolean expression.
• Identify how to match logical operators with their functions.
• Identify characteristics of an array.
• Identify how to initialize an array.
• Identify how to access array elements.
• Identify the syntax used to create a hash.
• Identify how to access a hash element.
• Identify how to delete a hash element.
CIW Perl Fundamentals Part 2: Manipulating Scripts
This is the second course in a three part series that students will learn both theoretical and practical instruction on external data Perl scripts. This course will also cover regular expressions and pattern matching, subroutines, and file access and manipulation.
Learn To
• Identify the syntax of pattern binding operators.
• Match metacharacters with their functions.
• Identify the syntax of character classes.
• Identify characteristics of subroutines.
• Identify the syntax used to invoke a subroutine.
• Identify the syntax used to return values from a subroutine.
• Identify characteristics of filehandles.
• Identify characteristics of the open function.
• Output data to a file by using the print function.
CIW Perl Fundamentals Part 3: Best Practices
This is the final course of a three part series that presents students with an overview of best practices for Perl. Students will learn about packages and modules, object orientation, database connectivity, and debugging Perl scripts.
Learn To
• Identify characteristics of a package.
• Identify characteristics of package symbol tables.
• Identify characteristics of BEGIN and END blocks.
• Identify characteristics of an object.
• Identify the syntax used to access object data.
• Identify the syntax used to access object methods.
• Identify characteristics of database connectivity.
• Identify characteristics of database modules.
• Identify the code used to interact with a database.
• Identify considerations for debugging a Perl script.
• Identify characteristics of the Perl debugger.
• Match Perl debugger commands with their functions. |
