Perl 2: Intermediate Perl

In this course, you will learn filehandlers, expressions, parsing, flags, and operators.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Create practical programs that interact with the user and the operating system.
• Perform useful and important tasks without even writing programs, by calling Perl from the command line with brief “one-liners.”
• Match and change text using the powerful technology of regular expressions.
• Enhance software quality with a larger repertoire of Perl operators, functions, and looping constructs.

From beginning to end, you will learn by doing Perl-based projects and submitting them for instructor feedback.  These projects, as well as the final project, will add to your portfolio and contribute to certificate completion.  Besides a browser and Internet connection, all software is provided online by the O’Reilly School of Technology.

This course counts toward the Perl Programming Certificate Series.

Prerequisites: Perl 1: Introduction to Perl, or equivalent skills.  This course is meant for the beginning or intermediate programmer.

60 Clock-hours  4 CEUs  $448.00 $313.60

Course Details and Syllabus

Course:	Perl 2: Intermediate Perl
Tuition:	$448 $313.60
Time Frame:	This course is online and self-paced. You can expect to work approximately 60 hours on this course.
Technical Requirements:	As long as you have a web browser and internet connection, you can take this course from anywhere in the world.
CEUs:	4 Continuing Education Units with official letter from O’Reilly Media.
Software:	The web-based Learning Sandbox® provided for you will contain all your lessons, projects, quizzes, account files, editors, and programming tools necessary to build your skills from beginning to end, even beyond coursework. In addition, you’ll be provided with a SSH account that can be accessed through the Sandbox or, if you prefer, any normal SSH program. No other software is needed.
Instructor:	You will have one instructor throughout the course who will evaluate your projects and quizzes, hand them back for improvement when necessary, and coach you throughout your skills advancement.
Book:	All required course materials and software are included online within the Learning Sandbox®. However, within a few weeks of enrolling, you’ll receive the e-book Programming Perl, Fourth Edition as a reference resource from O’Reilly.
Certificates:	Completion of this course counts toward the Perl Programming Certificate Series.
Prerequisites:	Perl 1: Beginning Perl, or equivalent skills. This course is meant for the beginning or intermediate programmer.
Topics:	Files, Regular Expressions, Character Classes, Quantifiers, Grouping, Alternation, Complete Pars, One-Liners, Flags, Operators, Numbers and Strings, Hashes, Directories, Math
Syllabus:	Perl 2 Lab 1 — Intermediate Perl Getting Started Postfixed Modifiers Naked Blocks Perl 2 Lab 2 — Opening Filehandles Yet Another Conditional open() Reading from filehandles open() modes Perl 2 Lab 3 — Perl’s Default Variable The Wonderful World of $_ More Postfixed Modifiers Perl 2 Lab 4 — Regular Expressions Introduction to Regular Expressions Literal Matching Structure and Execution of Regular Expressions The /i Modifier More Regex Examples Perl 2 Lab 5 — Regular Expressions: Character Classes Substitution in Character Classes Character Class Shortcuts Substitution Perl 2 Lab 6 — Regular Expressions: Quantifiers Regular Expressions: Quantifiers Regex Crafting Food for Thought Perl 2 Lab 7 — Regular Expressions: Anchors and Captures Anchors Captures Perl 2 Lab 8 — Grouping, Alternation, and Complete Parsing $_ and regexes Groups Alternation Complete Parsing Perl 2 Lab 9 — Introduction to One-Liners Perl at the Command Line The -e Flag The -n Flag BEGIN and END blocks Perl 2 Lab 10 — Substitution; More One-Liners Substitution Substitution in One-liners The -p Flag The -i Flag Perl 2 Lab 11 — More perl Flags; More Perl Operators The -w Flag The -Mstrict Flag The -c Flag The Trinary Operator The Scalar Range Operator Perl 2 Lab 12 — More on Numbers and Strings; More on Regular Expressions; More on Hashes String and Number Literals Character Functions Number Functions split() Hashes: each() Perl 2 Lab 13 — For Loops and More Miscellaneous Topics For Loops Loop Labels Unbuffered Output Perl 2 Lab 14 — Directory Reading Functions opendir, readdir, closedir glob Perl 2 Lab 15 –More Math Functions and Course Wrap-Up More Math Functions crypt() Final Example Program