Learn Perl 5 By Doing It

🎓 Course Title: Learn Perl 5 By Doing It

🚀 Course Headline: Dive Into Practical Perl Programming - From Web Scraping to Data Taming!

Welcome to "Learn Perl 5 By Doing It"!

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of Perl 5 and elevate your programming skills to a whole new level? Whether you're a beginner or an experienced programmer looking to expand your toolkit, this course is designed to guide you through the intricacies of Perl with a hands-on approach. You'll learn by doing, creating real-world applications that will not only solidify your understanding but also show you the vast capabilities of this versatile language.

Why Learn Perl 5?

Perl 5 is known for its power in text processing, its ability to glue systems together and its impressive suite of standard libraries - it's a jack-of-all-trades that has been around since the early '90s. It's the language behind many web applications you use today, including those created by none other than Mark Zuckerberg in the film "The Social Network."

What You'll Learn:

• Web Scraping and Automation: Download text and images from the Internet to extract data or create content.
• Data Manipulation: Reformat data, clean lists, merge data sources, and more - all essential skills for a data professional.
• Database Interaction: Import and export data to and from various databases, making you a valuable resource for backend operations.
• System Administration Tasks: Learn to automate file organization tasks like renaming or moving files with ease.
• Data Fixing: Quickly fix even large datasets, ensuring accuracy and consistency in your data.
• Web Development: Create dynamic web CGI scripts, expanding your web development skillset.
• Mastering Regular Expressions: Gain proficiency in regular expressions, the powerful text processing tool that's a staple in Perl and many other programming languages.

Course Outline:

1. Introduction to Perl 5: Get acquainted with the language and its ecosystem.

2. Setting Up Your Development Environment: Learn how to install and configure Perl on your system.

3. Perl Data Handling: Understand and master working with strings, arrays, and hashes - Perl's powerful data structures.

4. File Management and IO: Dive into file operations, learn how to read from, write to, and manage files efficiently.

5. Web Scraping with Perl: Discover how to download and parse web content using Perl modules designed for this purpose.

6. Working with Databases: Connect to databases, perform CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete), and manage data storage and retrieval.

7. System Administration Automation: Automate repetitive tasks on your system using Perl scripts.

8. Data Cleaning and Formatting: Learn techniques for cleaning up and formatting datasets to fit specific requirements or formats.

9. Writing Web CGI Scripts: Explore the basics of web programming with Perl's CGI.pm module to create interactive web applications.

10. Regular Expressions Mastery: Practice and master regular expressions, making you a formidable text processing expert.

Who Is This Course For?

• Aspiring programmers who want to add Perl 5 to their skill set.
• Developers looking to expand into systems programming, data analysis, or web development with a focus on backend operations.
• Systems administrators aiming to automate tasks and streamline system maintenance with scripts.
• Data professionals who need to process, clean, and manipulate large datasets.

By the end of this course, you'll have a solid foundation in Perl 5 programming, equipped with practical skills to tackle a variety of programming challenges. Ready to embark on your journey into the world of Perl 5? Let's get started! 🐘👨‍💻🔧