Duncan White's Perl 2012 Course Materials

Perl Short Course: December 2012

d.white@imperial.ac.uk
This web page contains all the materials for my Perl Short Course, that I've just finished giving last week (10th-14th December 2012) to Dept of Computing second year students.
Changes this year:

replaced lecture 6 big example (last year: max frequency, this year: linked lists module).
Two new lectures, 7 and 8, covering functional programming in Perl, and some advanced Perl topics.
incorporated lovely new Function::Parameters "fun name(args)" and "method name(args)" syntax from lectures 5..8.

First Lecture - Mon 10th Dec 3-4pm, Room 311

Here are the Postscript full size slides for the first lecture.

Here are the PDF full size slides for the first lecture.

Here are the Postscript 4-up slides for the first lecture.

Here are the PDF 4-up slides for the first lecture.

And here are the examples for the first lecture, as a gzipped tar file that will create a directory called lect1-examples.

Second Lecture - Mon 10th Dec 4-5pm, Room 311

Here are the Postscript full size slides for the second session.

Here are the PDF full size slides for the second session.

Here are the Postscript 4-up lecture notes for the second session.

Here are the PDF 4-up lecture notes for the second session.

And here are the examples for the second session, as a gzipped tar file that will create a directory called lect2-examples.

Third Lecture - Tuesday 11th Dec, 10-11am, in 311

Here are the Postscript full size slides for the third session.

Here are the PDF full size slides for the third session.

Here are the Postscript 4-up lecture notes for the third session.

Here are the PDF 4-up lecture notes for the third session.

And here are the examples for the third session, as a gzipped tar file that will create a directory called lect3-examples.

Fourth Lecture - Tuesday 11th Dec, 2-3pm, in 311

Here are the Postscript full size slides for the fourth session.

Here are the PDF full size slides for the fourth session.

Here are the Postscript 4-up lecture notes for the fourth session.

Here are the PDF 4-up lecture notes for the fourth session.

And here are the examples for the fourth session, as a gzipped tar file that will create a directory called lect4-examples.

Fifth Lecture - Thursday 13th Dec, 10-11am, in 311

Here are the Postscript full size lecture notes for the fifth session.

Here are the PDF full size slides for the fifth session.

Here are the Postscript 4-up lecture notes for the fifth session.

Here are the PDF 4-up lecture notes for the fifth session.

And here are the examples for the fifth session, as a gzipped tar file that will create a directory called lect5-examples.

Example CGI Scripts from the Fifth Lecture

Here is eg1.cgi: a first trivial example.

Here is eg2.cgi: first example using CGI.

Here is eg3.cgi: a silly form.

Sixth Lecture - Thursday 13th Dec, 2-3pm, in 311

Here are the Postscript full size lecture notes for the sixth session.

Here are the PDF full size slides for the sixth session.

Here are the Postscript 4-up lecture notes for the sixth session.

Here are the PDF 4-up lecture notes for the sixth session.

And here are the examples for the sixth session, as a gzipped tar file that will create a directory called lect6-examples.

Seventh Lecture - Friday, 14th Dec, 2-3pm, in 308

Here are the Postscript full size lecture notes for the seventh session.

Here are the PDF full size slides for the seventh session.

Here are the Postscript 4-up lecture notes for the seventh session.

Here are the PDF 4-up lecture notes for the seventh session.

And here are the examples for the seventh session, as a gzipped tar file that will create a directory called lect7-examples.

Eighth Lecture - Friday, 14th Dec, 3-4pm, in 311

Here are the Postscript full size lecture notes for the eighth session.

Here are the PDF full size slides for the eighth session.

Here are the Postscript 4-up lecture notes for the eighth session.

Here are the PDF 4-up lecture notes for the eighth session.

And here are the examples for the eighth session, as a gzipped tar file that will create a directory called lect8-examples.

Some Extra Notes
As promised, here are some extra notes for Perl material that didn't make it into the course, which may still be of interest..

Here are the Postscript full size extra notes.

Here are the PDF full size extra notes.

Here are the Postscript 4-up extra notes.

Here are the PDF 4-up extra notes.

d.white@imperial.ac.uk
Updated: December 2012