Learn Perl 5 By Doing It
Learn Perl by actually creating useful, working Perl programs for everything from web scraping to fixing your data.
Description
Discover some of the amazing things you can do with Perl 5, including downloading text and images from the Internet (just like Zuckerberg in The Social Network), reformatting data, importing and exporting data to and from databases, sysadmin-type tasks like renaming or moving files, fixing even huge amounts of data quickly and even creating web CGI scripts. In this course you'll also learn how to use regular expressions, those unbelievably useful little things that have now made their way into almost every serious programming language, yet remain the bête noire of many a developer.
What You Will Learn!
- Learn how to use Perl for a variety of common tasks
- Learn how to use regular expressions
Who Should Attend!
- Anyone who has some familiarity with basic programming in any language
- Anyone who wants to learn how to automate common tasks in IT