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Perl (5.44)

The planned outline of 16 modules. Lessons are written, run and reviewed before they are published.

Coming soon 16 modules

Coming soon. This track is being written. Below is its planned outline: a lesson appears here once its examples have been run and its technical review is signed off.

Planned outline

  1. Module 1

    Start here: which perl, how to run it, the safety net

    Coming soon
  2. Module 2

    Scalars: numbers, strings, formatting and operators

    Coming soon
  3. Module 3

    Arrays, hashes, context and sorting

    Coming soon
  4. Module 4

    Control flow, subroutines, scope and closures

    Coming soon
  5. Module 5

    References and nested data structures

    Coming soon
  6. Module 6

    Regular expressions for real text

    Coming soon
  7. Module 7

    Files, directories, I/O and log parsing

    Coming soon
  8. Module 8

    Perl one-liners for the command line

    Coming soon
  9. Module 9

    Processes, signals, users and time

    Coming soon
  10. Module 10

    Modules, CPAN and dependencies

    Coming soon
  11. Module 11

    Command-line tools, data formats, networks and databases

    Coming soon
  12. Module 12

    Testing, debugging, profiling and code quality

    Coming soon
  13. Module 13

    Objects and exceptions: bless, Moo, the class feature, try/catch

    Coming soon
  14. Module 14

    Unicode and text encodings

    Coming soon
  15. Module 15

    Writing secure Perl for operations

    Coming soon
  16. Module 16

    Maintaining legacy Perl and upgrading it

    Coming soon

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