Audience
Advanced Perl course for anyone who has basic understanding in Perl and would like to be able to us more advanced features, create clean, easily reuse code.

Objectives

• To be able capable to use advanced features of Perl.
• To be able to create Modules for better coder reuse
• To be able to write Object Orinted Perl code, create classes

Course format

• Total length of the course is 32 academic hours. (Usually 4 days.)
• About 50% of the time is hands on lab work.

Prerequisite

• In order to take this course you must have working knowledge of Perl.
• An understanding of the 3 basic data types and subroutine definitions.
• Scalar and List context.

Syllabus

• Using standard modules
• Installing modules from CPAN
• Using CPAN modules
• Packages, Namespaces
• Libraries and Modules
• Creating libraries and modules
• Exporting selected functions
• Unit testing
• Packaging modules for distribution
• Introduction to References
• Anonymous Arrays and Hashes
• Multi Dimensional Data Structures
• Manipulating Complex Data Structures
• References to functions
• Anonymous functions
• Static variables and Closures
• Memoization
• Data serialization
• Practical use of function references
• Object Oriented Perl (OOP)
• Constructors and destructors
• Class methods and Instance methods
• Members
• Inheritance, Polymorhism, Encapsulation
• Automatic Class creation
• Singleton
• Ties
• Operator overloading
• Using the Perl debugger
• Inside out Objects
• Using CGI for writing Web applications
• Using LWP to write eb scraping programs
• Using wxWidgets to write GUI applications