Perl Fundamentals
Learn Perl: the duct tape of the internet for thirty years. Powerhouse for text processing, system administration, and bioinformatics. Has the most expressive regex of any language and a dense, idiomatic style that rewards reading.
beginner8 lessons4 chapters8 graded exercisesPerl
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What you’ll be able to do
Chapter by chapter. Every lesson ends in a graded exercise.
- Basics
- Lists, Arrays, and Hashes
- Regular Expressions
- Control Flow and Subroutines
Taught in Perl, graded on a real executor.
Curriculum
4 chapters, 8 lessons. Each lesson is a short read and a graded exercise.
- 1Hello, PerlRead · exercise
- 2Scalars and VariablesRead · exercise