Syllabus

Date	Topics	Recommended Reading	Resources	Recommended Excersises	Assignments
3 February	Intro to Perl Scalar Data	Chs 1-2	Comparison of C++ and Perl Deb's Lecture Notes	p18 #1 p39 #1,2,5
10 February	Lists and Arrays Hashes Regexes	Chs 3, 5, 7-9	Deb's Lecture Notes	p 84 #1	Regex Assignment
17 February	Regexes - Match and Substitute File I/O Directory I/O Getopt::Long	Chs 9, 11-12	Simple Getopt Example Simple File I/O Example Fragment: Getopt, File, Directory Example		SimpleScalar Assignment
24 February	Getopt::Std Subroutines Advanced Loops perldoc	Chs 4, 10	Getopt::Std Example Simple Subroutine Example Another Subroutine Example Subroutine Example with Return Value	p 71 #1 p 147 #1
3 March	More perldoc use strict; System calls, backticks		perldoc Example use strict Example Backtick Example		Grading Assignment

Last Updated 7 March 2003