Introduction to Perl
Overview
Instructor: Keith Jackson
Time: Friday, March 1, 2024 — 1:30PM-4:00PM CT
Location: Henderson Hall 103
Prerequisites: Current HPRC account
Researchers are using Perl for various scientific computations, such as biological data analysis (Bioinformatics) and other applications. By using Perl, you can quickly write programs which will run on a variety of computer platforms. If you are familiar with Perl, you can also edit programs written by other researchers or third-party providers.
Perl has powerful text processing and I/O capabilities, which you can easily use with the operators and functions built into the Perl language. You can also take advantage of Perl's numerous library extensions, which implement a wide variety of useful tools.
This class will provide an introduction to the Perl programming language. We will explore the elements of the language through interactive examples.
Course Materials
Materials from Previous Classes
Agenda
This course focuses, among others, on the following topics:
Introduction to Perl
- What you can use Perl to do
- Executing your program
- Finding documentation
- Statement syntax
- Variables, constants, expressions
- Control flow
- Understanding error messages
- I/O
Note: During the class sessions many aspects of the material will be illustrated live using the Jupyter notebook web application. Attendees are welcome to follow these parts with their own laptops. They will need to configure their laptops to use the TAMULink wireless network. Relevant details on this can be found at: http://tamulink.tamu.edu/