Welcome to Perl Training Australia’s Programming Perl training course. This is a five-day module in which you will learn how to program the Perl programming language.

Course outline:

Day 1

• What is Perl?
• Introduction to perldoc
• Creating and running a Perl program
• Variable types
• Operators and Functions

Day 2

• Conditional constructs
• Subroutines
• Named parameter passing
• Regular expressions

Day 3

• Introduction to modules and packages
• Writing packages and modules
• Building modules with Module::Starter
• Testing your module
• Using Perl objects

Day 4

• References and complex data structures
• Advanced regular expressions

Day 5

• File I/O
• System interaction and security
• Directory interaction
• Bonus material