updated 10 February 2010

Bill Weinman
Perl 5 Essential Training

Perl 5 Essential Training is designed to give you a good a good foundation in Perl, with all its major features and properties, so you can use it to build powerful and compelling applications for yourself and for your clients.

For students with at least some programming experience, Perl 5 Essential Training covers the basic syntax of Perl, its use of lists and hashes for data structures, its unique features like postfix conditionals and loop controls, its modules and its object model.

Other topics include:

• Built-in functions
• File I/O
• Regular expressions
• Object-oriented programming
• Web development
• Perl 5.10 new features

Asking for help

If you have been viewing Perl 5 Essential Training on lynda.com and you need help, the help request form on lynda.com is designed to help you by collecting the necessary information as you submit your request. If you choose to write directly to me for help please be sure to include the following information:

• What course are you taking?
• What lesson are you on?
• What operating system and version are you running (e.g., Mac OSX 10.6.1, or Windows XP SP3)?
• What browser and version are you using?
• You may copy/paste this browser user-agent string:
  CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
• What version of Perl are you running?
• At a command line, type perl -v and copy/paste the results into your email
• If you are having a problem with CGI, what hosting provider and server type (Windows or Unix) are you using to run your CGI scripts?
• Please see my CGI Essential Training for more help with CGI.
• A full detailed description of the problem.

I strive to provide the best courses I can and I want to help you succeed in your learning adventure. I will do everything I can to help you, with the information and resources I have available.