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freeCodeCamp

Perl Programming Course for Beginners

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This beginner course introduces Perl programming from the command line, covering core data types, control flow, debugging, regular expressions, modules, object-oriented programming, web requests, file handling, and system commands.

Syllabus

⌨️ Introduction
⌨️ Running Perl via CLI
⌨️ Perl Script File Structure
⌨️ Data Types - Scalars
⌨️ Debugging with Data::Dumper
⌨️ Data Types - Arrays
⌨️ Data Types - Hashes
⌨️ References [Part 1]
⌨️ References [Part 2]
⌨️ Subroutines
⌨️ Variable Scope
⌨️ Error Handling
⌨️ Logical Operators
⌨️ Conditional Statements
⌨️ Loops
⌨️ Regular Expressions
⌨️ Built-in Functions
⌨️ Special Variables
⌨️ OOP - Classes, instances, attributes and methods
⌨️ "use" vs "require"
⌨️ Exporter and method types
⌨️ Installing modules with CPANM
⌨️ Improved exception handling
⌨️ Web requests with Mojo::UserAgent
⌨️ Reading and writing files
⌨️ Reading and writing files with Path::Tiny
⌨️ Running system commands

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