G'day folk, It was great to talk to you last night. :) Below is the information about the upcoming Perl training courses that I mentioned. 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 LUV) 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. 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