[Melbourne-pm] Programming Perl course, Melbourne, December 2013

[Jacinta Richardson]

G'day folk,

Perl Training Australia is delighted to be able to offer you (or 
probably more accurately) your friends and colleagues two great 
opportunities to learn Perl.

1.  If you are a student or open source enthusiast who is looking for a 
new job, then you might be interested in know that Strategic Data and 
Perl Training Australia are offering up to 8 individual scholarships for 
computer science graduates to complete our 5 day Programming Perl 
course, valued at $3700 per person.

This course is running 2nd - 6th December.  More information: 
http://tinyurl.com/perlts2013


2.  If you want/need to learn Perl for your current (and ongoing) job, 
you might be happy to know that Perl Training Australia is running our 
very popular Programming Perl course in Melbourne on the 9th - 13th 
December.

*Book before 5pm, Friday 15th November (and mention this email to 
Melbourne Perl Mongers) to pay only $3200 per person!  That's a $500 
discount per person. *All prices are GST inclusive, offer only applies 
to new bookings on this course.  No other offers apply with this 
special, but if you name a Melbourne Perl Monger as your reference then 
they are entitled to one free Perl book of their choice. 
http://perltraining.com.au/books/

Bookings can be made at http://perltraining.com.au/bookings/Melbourne.html

This course covers Perl's fundamentals to give an existing programmer 
sufficient knowledge of Perl to work on most projects. It assumes 
features from up to Perl 5.16, but includes work-arounds for older 
versions.

The first half of this course will introduce the Perl programming 
language, discuss Perl's variable types, functions, operators, 
conditionals and subroutines. Once you grasp Perl's basics, the second 
half will build on that knowledge to cover I/O, complex data structures, 
file system interaction, modules, packages and objects.

You will learn:

  * how to write simple Perl scripts and run them from the command-line;
  * how to use Perl's inbuilt help system, perldoc;
  * how to use warnings and strict to catch common errors and enforce
    good programming style;
  * about Perl's three main data types and how (and when) to use them;
  * about Perl's most common operators and functions;
  * how to use Perl's conditional and looping constructs;
  * how to write and use subroutines;
  * about Perl's powerful regular expression capabilities and how to
    apply them to your problem;
  * how to create, dereference and use references to build complex data
    structures which allow multi-dimensional arrays and hashes.
  * how to write and use Perl modules and packages;
  * how to use Module::Starter to start your modules off on the right foot;
  * how to write tests;
  * how to use Perl objects;
  * how to interact with the file system to read and write files, and
    read directories;
  * how to pass commands to the system for execution and the pitfalls
    therein;

We hope to see your booking soon!

http://perltraining.com.au/bookings/Melbourne.html


All the best,

     Jacinta

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