Department of Computing: Duncan White's Perl 2013 Course Materials

Introduction to Perl: Ac Yr 2013-4, given January 2014

d.white@imperial.ac.uk
This web page contains all the materials for my Introduction to Perl Short Course, that I've just finished giving (13th-15th January 2014) to Dept of Computing second year students.
Changes this year:

Gone back from IO::File to open (but 3-argument open).
Mentioned web frameworks.
Split out all the long exercises.
Wrote lots more exercises (for lectures 5-8).
Added a slide on profiling to lecture 8.
Added a slide on Moose to the extra notes document.

Here are the course materials, covering the lectures, some exercises and some extra notes.

First Lecture

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

Here are the PDF 4-up lecture notes 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

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

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

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

Third Lecture

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

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

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

Fourth Lecture

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

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

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

Fifth Lecture

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

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

And here are the examples for the fifth lecture, 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

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

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

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

Seventh Lecture

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

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

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

Eighth Lecture

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

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

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

Some Exercises for you to try
Here are some Perl exercises you might like to work through.

Here are the PDF full size exercises.

Here are the PDF 4-up exercises.

Some Extra Notes
Here are some extra notes for Perl material that didn't make it into the course, which may still be of interest.. This includes a brand new section on Moose, a new OO framework for Perl that many people now recommend.

Here are the PDF full size extra notes.

Here are the PDF 4-up extra notes.

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Updated: January 2014