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About Perl and this class
Catalog description: CSIT 144 Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL)An introductory university-level course in Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL), with emphasis on server side CGI support of interactive World Wide Web pages and basic UNIX server administration tasks. Perl has become the programming language of choice for UNIX server administration and for server support of World Wide Web pages on the Internet. Perl is fast, full-featured, portable, and free for the download. Program development in Perl is quick and much of the Internet is already powered by Perl scripts. Facility with Perl gives the Web developer ultimate page/server interactivity that is ideal for e-commerce as well as many other applications. A discussion of the features and advantages of Perl may be found in this section of Robert Pepper's Perl Tutorial This course will cover the basic features of Perl with emphasis on interaction with World Wide Web pages using Common Gateway Interface (CGI). All software used in the course is free and students will be provided with copies for their personal use. Students completing the course will be familiar with online repositories of Perl applications and will have created an array of projects that can serve as a personal reference library of standard server interactive applications. D. Titchenell
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