This course is based on a rather excellent Perl book called:

Perl: A Programmer's Companion, by Nigel Chapman, published by John Wiley & Sons (1997).

I have tried to remain as faithful as I can to the contents of the text.

Paul's Introduction to Perl.

Processing Text Files with Perl.

When you are happy you understand the "Files" material,
have a go at doing the exercises from Chapter 2 of the textbook.
You can download all of the textbook exercises here. Note: they are in Acrobat format.

Working with simple scalar variables in Perl.

Perl Laboratory #1 - a real easy one to get you started.

Perl Laboratory #2 - more simple drill exercises, which follow-on from Lab #1.

Perl Laboratory #3 - using substitutions and translations.

Perl Laboratory #4 - some complete example scripts which use variables. (The second script comes from the exercises in the textbook).

You now know enough to attempt the rest of the exercises from Chapter 3 of the textbook.

Controlling program flow with Perl.

Perl Laboratory #5 - the small interpreter.

Working with lists in Perl.

Working with hashes in Perl.

Doing file I/O in Perl.

Perl Lab #6: Working with Lists and Hashes

You now know enough to attempt the exercises from Chapters 4, 5 and 6 of the textbook. Be warned: some of them assume you have a copy of the textbook.

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