Slides

1. Perl literacy course.
2. Why do I use Perl?
3. Perl vs. [whatever]
4. Why am I giving this course?
5. Why am I giving this course? (cont.)
6. Why am I giving this course? (cont.)
7. Prerequisites
8. Overview of the course
9. We will do today
10. We will NOT do today
11. What is Perl?
12. What is Perl? (cont.)
13. Who uses Perl?
14. The capabilities of Perl
15. Some features of Perl
16. Who supports Perl? Who develops it?
17. What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
18. Hello World! from the commandline
19. Hello World! from a file
20. Case sensitivity
21. Warnings switch
22. Fixing the error
23. Perl data structures
24. Scalars -- Examples for numbers
25. Scalars -- Strings example
26. Calculating grades averages
27. Grades input file "grades"
28. output
29. The Perl code
30. Some reading:
31. Thank you