Perl Training | Perl Certification

A Perl training course designed cover all the basics of Perl Programming and also enable web developers to build dynamic (database-driven) e-commerce web sites using the Perl programming language, its specialist web modules and CGI (the common gateway interface). This Perl course includes a thorough grounding in generic Perl programming before covering specialised Perl web development tools and techniques (the stuff that some people think of as CGI Perl) on the final day.

Prerequisites

This Perl course assumes that delegates can already program in at least one programming language or scripting language.

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for:

• Programmers who need an introduction to Perl, eg: for batch scripts, database handling and system administration.
• Programmers who have not had formal Perl training and who's awareness of Perl is patchy.
• Programmers who need to develop serious web sites on any of today's major platforms and in multi-platform environments.
• Web Developers with limited scripting experience (such as JavaScript, VBScript, Unix/Linux shell scripting, etc., rather than pure programming).

Course Outline

• Preparing to Learn Perl
• Perl: the Absolute Minimum
• Arrays and Hashes
• Perl: Input and Functions
• Text Manipulation with Regular Expressions
• Perl: Operators and Loops
• Perl: Beyond the Basics
• Complex Data Structures & References
• Finding Out More for Yourself
• Using Perl Modules from CPAN
• Debugging Perl
• Command-Line Perl
• A Whistle-Stop Tour of the World of Perl
• Perl Style
• Handling Databases with Perl
• Advanced File Processing
• System Interaction
• Perl Security Issues
• Introduction to CGI Programming
• Further CGI Programming
• Creating Web-Pages with HTML::Template
• Creating Web-Pages with HTML::Mason
• Web Security Issues