PRINCETON ACM / IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTERS
SPRING 1999 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR

Introduction to Perl

Saturday, April 17, 1999
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sarnoff Corporation Auditorium, Princeton, NJ
Cost: $90 (Princeton ACM/IEEE-CS members), $100 (non-members)

This workshop provides a practical introduction to Perl by showing common patterns of usage. You will learn how to manipulate text, process data, calculate, program, and write CGI scripts in Perl.

Perl ("Practical Extraction and Report Language") is a multi-purpose programming language. It was initially designed for doing text manipulation and report formatting, but it has become increasingly popular for Web-based applications. The majority of the server-based applications -- many of the applications that use the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) -- are written in Perl, because of Perl's flexibility and portability.

Perl is an easy programming language to learn: beginning Perl programmers can start small, using a simple subset of the language. Since Perl is an interpreted language, small Perl programs can be written and tested rapidly -- this makes it easy to experiment with small modifications to existing Perl programs. There are also a large number of standard Perl library modules that help programmers do many tasks.

Prerequisites: This course is designed for people with no previous experience with Perl. Because Perl includes aspects from Awk, C, Shell, and Unix, participants who have experience with them will probably pick up Perl more rapidly than others.

After this course you will be able to write and execute a Perl script. This workshop includes the following topics:

Nancy Blachman is a mathematical programmer at Fuji Securities, where she writes risk analysis programs in Perl. She has taught classes in mathematical software at Stanford University and has written several popular books on Mathematica, including Mathematica: A Practical Approach, The Mathematica Quick Reference, and The Mathematica Graphics Guidebook. She holds degrees in Mathematics, Operations Research, and Computer Science from the University of Birmingham (UK), the University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford University.

Date: Saturday April 17, 1999, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Auditorium, Sarnoff Corporation, 201 Washington Road (Rt 571 1/4 mile south of US 1), Princeton, NJ

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The registration fee includes the seminar course notes,
lunch, and morning and afternoon coffee breaks.  If you also
want to obtain a copy of the supplementary textbook (Perl 5
Interactive Course by Jon Orwant, an 800 page book with a
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Seminar date: Apr. 17
Seminar topic: Introduction to Perl

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Textbook (optional):  [] $45 (Jon Orwant's book Perl 5 Interactive Course)
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