CSE459.51: Programming in PERL

CSE459.51:
Programming in PERL

Instructor

Office	Phone
DL 797	292-6373

Office Hours

Tuesday 4:30 to 5:30, or by appointment

Meeting Time and Location

Tuesdays at 3:30 in BO 314

Course Homepage

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~joseph/courses/459.51/

Description

This course is an introduction to the Perl programming language, introducing the basic structure of the language, as well as several common applications, including text and file processing and process orchestration.

Level and Credits

U 1 (one one-hour lecture)

Prerequisites

CSE 321

Quarters Offered

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, the students will have

Familiarity with Perl's data types
Familiarity with text and file manipulations using Perl
Familiarity with using DBI to access a database
Familiarity with basic CGI scripts written in Perl

Text

Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Phoenix, Learning Perl, 3rd Edition

Note that the order/speed of presentation of topics may change depending on the receptiveness of the class and the time available.

Week	Topics	Chapters
1	Intro. to Perl, basic skeleton, scalar variables	1,2
2	Arrays, lists, subroutines	3,4
3	Hashes, basic I/O	5,6
4	Regular expressions	7,8,9
5	Control Structures	10
6	File and directory manipulations	11,12,13
7	Process orchestration	14
8	String manipulations and sorting	15
9	Perl DBI, advanced Perl concepts	16
10	Overflow from previous weeks, or perhaps some other advanced concepts.

Grading Plan

Lab Assignments: 100%

Lab submissions

An example submit command that should work for you:

submit c459.51ae lab1 lab1.pl