Learn Perl 5 By Doing It

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Basic Perl: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Installing Perl and Some Great Free Editors

Lecture 2: Hello World

Lecture 3: Downloading Text And Images – Updated

Lecture 4: Downloading Text and Images With Perl (Old Version!)

Lecture 5: Arrays and Checking Whether Files Exist

Lecture 6: Reading Files and Beginning Regular Expressions

Lecture 7: Writing Files and Replacing Text

Lecture 8: Wildcards in Regular Expressions

Lecture 9: Groups: Finding Out What You Actually Matched

Lecture 10: Quantifiers: Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

Lecture 11: Escape Sequences

Lecture 12: Numeric Quantifiers

Lecture 13: Test Your Perl and Regex Knowlege – First Test

Chapter 2: More on Reading Files Line By Line: Tips, Tricks and Vital Knowledge

Lecture 1: Split and Reading CSV Files

Lecture 2: Join and Viewing Data Using Data::Dumper

Lecture 3: Chomp and Removing Spaces in Splits

Lecture 4: "Pushing" Onto Arrays

Lecture 5: Arrays of Arrays

Lecture 6: Hashes: Lookup Tables in Perl

Lecture 7: Iterating Over Hashes

Lecture 8: Arrays of Hashes

Lecture 9: Storing CSV Data in a Data Structure

Lecture 10: Validating CSV Data

Lecture 11: Cleaning CSV Data

Lecture 12: Test Your Perl and Regex Knowlege – Second Test

Chapter 3: Web Scraping and More Regular Expressions

Lecture 1: Basic Web Scraping

Lecture 2: Character Classes

Lecture 3: Matching Repeatedly

Lecture 4: Collecting Repeated Matches All At Once

Chapter 4: Building a Complete Progam: Command Line Options

Lecture 1: Getting Command Line Options

Lecture 2: Subroutines and Returning Values

Lecture 3: Multi-Line Strings and Comments

Lecture 4: Passing Arguments to Subroutines

Lecture 5: References to Hashes

Lecture 6: Checking Values in Hashes

Chapter 5: Parsing XML and Complex Data Structures

Lecture 1: Finding All Files in a Directory and Filtering Arrays

Lecture 2: Processing Files One By One

Lecture 3: Parsing XML with Regular Expressions

Lecture 4: Using XML::Simple, and Extracting Data from Complex Structures

Lecture 5: Extracting Data from Complex Structures: A Complete Example

Lecture 6: Building Complex Data Structures

Chapter 6: Working with Databases

Lecture 1: Free Databases to Use with Perl

Lecture 2: Creating Databases with MySQL

Lecture 3: Connecting to a Database

Lecture 4: Inserting Data into a Database

Lecture 5: Deleting Data and Executing Dataless SQL Commands

Lecture 6: Getting the IDs of Records You've Just Inserted

Lecture 7: Querying Databases

Lecture 8: Exporting Data

Chapter 7: Perl One-Liners

Lecture 1: Running One-Line Perl Programs

Lecture 2: Replacing Text in Files

Lecture 3: Editing Files In-Place

Chapter 8: Modules and OO Perl

Lecture 1: Modules

Lecture 2: Packages and Directories

Lecture 3: Object Orientation: A Brief Introduction

Lecture 4: Implementing OO in Perl

Chapter 9: Web Application Basics

Lecture 1: Installing the Apache HTTP Server

Lecture 2: A Hello World Web App

Lecture 3: The CGI.pm Module

Lecture 4: Using URL Parameters

Lecture 5: Website Forms

Chapter 10: Basic Sysadmin Tasks

Lecture 1: Moving, Copying and Deleting Files

Lecture 2: Executing System Commands

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Where to Find Documentation and More Modules

Chapter 12: Appendix 1: Example Data

Lecture 1: XML Files

Chapter 13: Appendix 2: Alternate Systems

Lecture 1: Running Perl in UNIX, Linux, Mac and Cygwin

Chapter 14: Extras

Lecture 1: Arrays and Hashes Review

Lecture 2: References to Hashes and Arrays Review