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Eric’s Online Perl Tutorial - Basic & Advanced Perl Programming Eric’s Online Perl Tutorial Perl - Scripting Basics & Advanced Techniques WM112/WM113 Merrimack College Webmaster Certificate Program Eric D. Larson, Instructor eXXXXlarson@ericdlarson.com Recommended Texts: Learning Perl Second Edition Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Christiansen O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1997 ISBN: 1-56592-284-0 CGI Programming on the World Wide Web Shishir Gundavaram 1st Edition March 1996 1-56592-168-2, Order Number: 1682 450 pages, $32.95 Webmaster In A Nutshell By Stephen Spainhour & Valerie Quercia 1st Edition October 1996 374 pages, $19.95 Course Objectives: Perl, Perl, and nothing but Perl... well ok, maybe some CGI stuff too! This course will take you through all aspects of Perl programming and how it can be used for web development. Data Structures: Scalars, Arrays, Hashes Control Blocks: if/then/else, while/for/foreach loops Basic I/O: File Handles, STDIN/STDOUT Advanced I/O: Interacting with the OS, Working with Files & Directories, Formats Regular Expressions: Pattern Matching, Substitutions Functions: Subroutines CGI Programming in Perl: Dynamic HTML Generation, Form Processing Perl Packages: Modules, Reusable Code LWP: The Web Library for Perl Session 1 Handout 1 Handout 2 Unix Commands Handout HTML Color Table Handout: Hello World/print examples Assignment: Skim over Preface & Chapter 1, Read Chapter 2 - Homework #1 Session 2 Handout Scalar Data & Data Manipulation: Operators Programming Style: Use of comments, indenting, blank space/spacers Getting Input from the user: STDIN as a scalar value In-Class Assignment: Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4 p. 47 Handout: Ch2 Exercises Assignment: Read Chapter 2 (if you haven’t already), 3 & 4 - Homework #2 Session 3 Handout1 Conditionals: if...then...else Loops: while, for, foreach - Examples Arrays & Lists Hashes CGI Overview How to generate web pages with perl programs Assignment: Read Chapter 5 & 6 - Homework #3 Session 4 Handout Hashes (cont.) STDIN & STDOUT Assignment: Read Chapter 8, 10, 14(pages 142-147 only) Session 5 Handout Functions File Handles System I/O Session 6 Handout1 Handout2 The Perl CGI Module Form Processing with Perl Assignment: CGI/Forms Handout Session 7 Handout 1 Other cool stuff you should know... Packages How to use cron Session 8 Regular Expressions & Pattern Matching Session 9 Hash & Array References, Records Session 10 Mail & Web Clients Sending Email with Perl Session 11 Parsing and Scraping HTML with Perl Session 12 File Locking Session 13 Perl FTP Clients Session 14 Database Access in Perl Perl Related Web Sites: www.perl.com - The home of perl www.perl.com/CPAN/ - CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) - This is where to find some great modules to extend the capabilities of Perl. Examples from the book - examples.tar.gz Matt’s Script Archive - Some excellent CGI...