Developed with the philosophy of TIMTOWODI (There Is More Than One Way Of Doing It), perl is called as the "Swiss Knife" among programming languages. perl is a versatile programming language that has a wide spread use in various domains such as VLSI, Embedded Systems, Networking, Protocol and Software Testing, Web Development, Automated Testing and so on. It has become an essential skill for IT and BT professionals and hobbyists alike. This is a highly hands-on training program which will help you develop practical knowledge in perl programming. It features 100+ examples, 20+ assignments, 10+ case studies and a mini-project.

Topics Covered

Section #1: 1. Introduction to perl 2. Operators, literals and variables 3. Arrays and Hashes 4. Statements and loops 5. Date and time Section #2: 6. Standard IO in perl 7. Functions 8. References Section #3: 9. Regular expressions and pattern matching 10. Special variables Section #4: 11. File I/O and editing 12. Working with directories 13. Report generation Section #5: 14. Objects in perl 15. Modules and standard perl modules 16. Debugging in perl Section #6: 17. Introduction to networking in perl 18. Sockets in perl 19.The IO::Socket library 20. Introduction to programing TCP/IP in perl 21. Developing clients for services such as FTP, SMTP, Sending mail 22. Introduction to TCP client-server systems Section #7: 24. Working with databases Section #8: 25. Miscellaneous a. grep function b. Calling Linux commands in perl c. Globbing d. Pragmatic modules e. Writing packages and modules f. perl community and CPAN g. Introduction to graphics in perl h. Introduction to automation

Who should attend

This course is meant for students, freshers and professionals.

Pre-requisites

Basic programming knowledge

What you need to bring

Laptop"

Key Takeaways

By the end of the course you should be able to 1. Use perl programming language constructs to implement computer algorithms 2. Understand, modify and debug a perl script 3. Write perl scripts to manipulate data, work with files and generate reports 4. Write perl scripts for working with third party tools, data bases and networks A certificate of completion will be awarded at the end of the course.