Learn Perl for CGI Programming

 

Course Details and Syllabus

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Course: Learn Perl for CGI Programming
Tuition: $398
Time Frame: Due to our monthly lab fee system, this course is completely self-paced. You can expect to work approximately 40 hours on this course.
Technical Requirements: As long as you have a web browser and internet connection, you can take this course from anywhere in the world.
CEUs: 4 Continuing Education Units with official letter from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education.
Software: The web-based Learning Sandbox® provided for you will contain all your lessons, projects, quizzes, account files, editors, and programming tools necessary to build your skills from beginning to end, even beyond coursework. No other software is needed.
Instructor: You will have one instructor throughout the course who will evaluate your projects and quizzes, hand them back for improvement when necessary, and coach you throughout your skills advancement.
Book: All required course materials and software are included online within the Learning Sandbox®. However, within a few weeks of enrolling, you'll receive the free book CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition as a complimentary reference from O'Reilly.
Certificates: Completion of this course counts toward both the Web Programming Certificate Series and the Open Source Programming Certificate Series.
Prerequisites: Introduction to HTML and CSS, or equivalent solid foundation in HTML. This course is meant for the beginning or intermediate programmer.
Topics: Forms, Environment Variables, Parsing, Post and Get, Regular Expressions, Functions, Perl Modules, Guestbooks, Chats, etc.
Syllabus:
  • CGI Lab1: Intro to CGI and Perl
    • What is Perl?
    • What is CGI

  • CGI Lab 2: Your first CGI program
      Headers
    • Print

  • CGI lab 3: Environmental Variables

  • CGI lab 4:Forms
    • Post
    • Get

  • CGI lab 5: Parsing the Information
    • URL encoding

  • CGI lab 6:Regular Expressions
    • Substitutions
    • Wildcards

  • CGI lab 7:Variables and Operators

  • CGI lab 8: Arrays and Hashes

  • CGI lab 9:Statements
    • if
    • for and while

  • CGI lab 10: Functions
    • Syntax
    • Passing parameters
    • Making Perl libraries

  • CGI lab 11: Opening and Writing to files

  • CGI lab 12: Making a Web Guestbook

  • CGI lab 13: Making a Web chat
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