Learn Perl from Scratch

Beginner

75 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

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This course includes

98 Playgrounds

12 Challenges

11 Quizzes

This course includes

98 Playgrounds

12 Challenges

11 Quizzes

Course Overview

Perl is one of the most popular text processing languages in the world. It allows you to create extremely efficient text parsers for all sorts of applications. This interactive course will help you get up to speed on Perl, starting off with basic concepts like loops, strings, and arrays. You'll build your way up to more complex topics like data structures and packages. No background knowledge is needed. Anyone willing to understand the principles and syntax of Perl to use it in the future will find this c...Show More

Course Content

Getting Started

What is Perl?

Hello World

Comments

Quiz Yourself on Comments and Printing Texts.

Challenge: Printing Text

Solution Review: Printing Text

Variables

Variables and Data Types

Quick Quiz on Variables

Variable Variables

Challenge: Make Variables

Solution Review: Make Variables

Operators

Introduction to Operators

Precedence and Associativity

Conditional Statements

if-else Statement

if-elsif-else Statement

Given and When Statement

Ternary Operator

Quiz on Conditional Statements

Challenge 1: Even or Odd

Solution Review: Even or Odd

Challenge 2: Making a Calculator

Solution Review: Making a Calculator

Loops

Introduction to Loops

Equivalence of for Loop and while Loop

Infinite Loops

Quiz on Loops

Challenge 1: Multiplication Table of a Number

Solution Review: Multiplication Table of a Number

Challenge 2: Fibonacci Sequence

Solution Review: Fibonacci Sequence

Challenge 3: Printing Pyramid

Solution Review: Printing Pyramid

Subroutines

10 Lessons

Strings

6 Lessons

Arrays

11 Lessons

Packages

6 Lessons

10.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

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