Learn Perl from Scratch

Course Overview

Perl is one of the most popular text processing languages in the world. It allows you to create extremely efficient text parsers for all sorts of applications. This interactive course will help you get up to speed on Perl, starting off with basic concepts like loops, strings, and arra... See More

How You'll Learn

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Getting Started

What is Perl?

Hello World

Comments

Quiz Yourself on Comments and Printing Texts.

Challenge: Printing Text

Solution Review: Printing Text

2. Variables

Variables and Data Types

Quick Quiz on Variables

Variable Variables

Challenge: Make Variables

Solution Review: Make Variables

3. Operators

Introduction to Operators

Precedence and Associativity

Relational Operators

Logical Operators

Assignment Operators

Quiz on Operators

4. Conditional Statements

if-else Statement

if-elsif-else Statement

Given and When Statement

Ternary Operator

Quiz on Conditional Statements

Challenge 1: Even or Odd

Solution Review: Even or Odd

Challenge 2: Making a Calculator

Solution Review: Making a Calculator

5. Loops

Introduction to Loops

While Loop

Do-while Loop

For Loop

Foreach Loop

Until Loop

Equivalence of for Loop and while Loop

Infinite Loops

Quiz on Loops

Challenge 1: Multiplication Table of a Number

Solution Review: Multiplication Table of a Number

Challenge 2: Fibonacci Sequence

Solution Review: Fibonacci Sequence

Challenge 3: Printing Pyramid

Solution Review: Printing Pyramid

6. Subroutines

Introduction to Subroutines

Variable Scope

Passing Arguments in Subroutines

Passing Parameters by Value

Passing Parameters by Reference

Quiz on Subroutines

Challenge 1: Sum of Two Numbers

Solution Review: Sum of Two Numbers

Challenge 2: Letter Grade to GPA

Solution Review: Letter Grade to GPA

7. Strings

Strings Interpolation

String Operators

Built-in Subroutines

Quiz on Strings

Challenge: Check Substring

Solution Review: Check Substring

8. Arrays

Arrays and their Operations

Challenge 1: Find the Maximum Value

Solution Review: Find the Maximum Value

Multidimensional Arrays

Challenge 2: Print a Matrix

Solution Review: Print a Matrix

Quiz 1

Adding Elements in an Array

Removing Element from an Array

Sorting Arrays

Quiz 2

9. Packages

Introduction to Packages

Defining Packages

Setters and Getters

Quiz on Packages

Challenge: Calculating Area

Solution Review: Calculating Area

10. Conclusion

Thank You and Next Steps