Perl

Full Perl course — 55 topics from the basics to advanced use.

Lessons

• Packages and Modules
• CPAN and Dependency Management
• Error Handling
• Pragmas and Modern Perl
• Classic OOP with bless
• Inheritance, Method Resolution and UNIVERSAL
• Moose and Moo
• The Core class Feature
• Roles, Overloading and Advanced OOP
• Closures, Higher-Order Functions and Functional Perl
• Typeglobs, the Symbol Table and Metaprogramming
• Special Variables
• Tied Variables, AUTOLOAD and DESTROY
• Processes, Signals and IPC
• Concurrency
• Networking and Sockets
• Introduction to Perl
• Installation, Tools and First Program
• Scalars, Numbers and Strings
• Operators
• Arrays and Lists
• Hashes
• Context: Scalar vs List
• Control Flow
• Input and Output Basics
• Command-Line Tools
• Data Formats
• Databases with DBI and DBIx::Class
• Web Development
• HTTP Clients and Web Scraping
• Date and Time
• System Administration and DevOps
• Testing
• Documentation with POD
• Debugging and Profiling
• Performance Optimization
• Security and Taint Mode
• XS, FFI and Embedding
• Packaging, Distribution and Deployment
• Perl Internals, History, Raku and Best Practices
• Appendices: Projects, Interview Questions, Cheat Sheet & Resources
• Subroutines and Signatures
• Scope: my, our, local, state
• References
• Complex Data Structures
• Built-in Functions for Lists and Strings
• Sorting
• File Handling
• Directories and the File System
• Regular Expression Basics
• Advanced Regular Expressions
• Text Processing and One-Liners
• Formats, sprintf and Report Generation
• Unicode and Encodings
• Course Overview