Intermediate Perl Programming
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" Intermediate Perl Programming "
3 days
Next Public Offering: 9/3-5 Location: Seattle |
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Course Description
This course is for Students with previous Perl programming experience who are ready to go "beyond the basics".Students will learn to use language features and programmer tricks that allow them to write more compact and efficient programs, and to solve complex problems more easily. Students will also acquire new skills that will help them do basic tasks with greater elegance and security.
Topics include: File Management, Data Management, Scope Management, Using References, Handling Complex Data Structures, Enhancing Security, and Using eval.
Fundamentals of Object Oriented Perl is a related course, which covers a subset of Intermediate Perl topics along with an introduction to Object Oriented Perl Programming.
Who Should Attend
Students should have at least 6 months of prior experience with UNIX and Perl, and be experienced with one of the following text editors: vi, emacs, or pico (or another locally available editor, for on-site classes). The course is intended for programmers, system administrators, network administrators, data administrators, and webmasters.Author & Instructors
Dr. Tim Maher has been working with the interpreted languages of UNIX for over 20 years. He has used them to write many sophisticated applications, including a user interface for U.C. Berkeley undergraduates and source code beautifiers for Perl and C++. As the founder and head of CONSULTIX, Tim regularly teaches courses on a wide variety of software topics.CONSULTIX instructors are renowned for their ability to communicate complex concepts in simple terms and to make the study of dry technical material enjoyable.
Topics
| Implicit Loops | File Locking | Finding Files |
| Multidimensional Arrays and Hashes | Complex Data Structures | Tied Hashes |
| Data::Dumper | Exceptions and eval | Validating Regular Expressions |
| Packages & Global Variables | Data References | Code References |
| Anonymous Arrays and Hashes | map & grep | Schwartzian Transforms |
| Tainted Data | Laundering Data | Debugging Aids |