GVP COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (A)                                       2015
                                   PERL PROGRAMMING
                                        (ELECTIVE-II)
            Course Code: 15CA3122                                         LT P C
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            Course Outcomes:
            At the end of the course student will be able to
            CO1: To identify basic perl constructs and to outline perl debugging
                   commands.
            CO2: To create and design simple perl programs with the available perl
                   pre-defined functions.
            CO3: To demonstrate perl subroutines and perl references
            CO4: To Apply Data Structures on perl programs and perl formats.
            CO5: To install HTTP server and to design and execute perl programs
                   through CGI.
            UNIT-I                                                  (10 Lectures)
            Introduction to perl # ! , Basic I/O, Variables variables & Backslash
            Interpolation, Scalar/list control operators, operator procedure, if unless,
            loops, loop control.
            Debugging perl scripts Debugging commands, Debugger customization,
            Unattended execution, Debugging support, the perl profiler.
            UNIT-II                                                 (10 Lectures)
            Built  in  Function  Perl  functions  by  category,  Perl  functions  in
            alphabetical  order. Regular  expressions  Pattern  Matching,  operators,
            Meta  character  and meta  symbols.  Character  classes,  quantifiers,
            Pointers, capturing & clustering, Alternation, staying in control.
            UNIT-III                                                (10 Lectures)
            Subroutines  Syntax,  Semantics,      parsing   references,   prototypes,
            subroutine  attributes. Formats  Format  variables, footers. References
            Creating References, using hard references, symbolic references, Braces,
            Brackets and quotes.
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            GVP COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (A)                                            2015
            UNIT-IV                                                     (10 Lectures)
            Data Structure Arrays of Arrays, Hashes of arrays, Arrays of Hashes,
            Hashes of Hashes, Hashing as function , Elaborate records, Hashes of
            functions. CGI Programming CGI Basic, Forms, Methods.
            UNIT-V                                                      (10 Lectures)
            Here Docs, More CGI Emailing, Cookies, File uploading, E-mail.
            TEXT BOOKS
            1.   Tom  Christiansen,  Brian  D  Foy,  Larry  Wall,  Jon  Orwant,
                  Programming Perl, OƒReily, 3rd Edition, 2010.
            2.    Scott Guelich, CGI Programming with Perl, OƒReily, et al., SPD
                  publication, 2nd Edition, 2008.
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