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Workshop: Introduction to Perl 6
- Duration
- 8 hours (with 3 breaks)
- Audience
- People with no experience in Perl
- People with Perl 5 experience
- Description
- During this course, you will receive a great practical introduction to Perl 6. We will go through the most important concepts that the language offers to a developer. The course is split into three parts: "Introduction", "The Basics", and "Advanced concepts". Theoretical material is accomplished by a lot of exercises (both individual and in groups).
- Requirements
- Understanding of programming in general
- Laptop with internet
- No software pre-installed needed
- Contents
- Introduction (1 hour)
- What is Perl 6?
- Why is it important to learn it now?
- Perl 6 design ideas
- Perl family
- Language defined by specification
- Proper OOP
- Regexes on steroids
- Concurrency and parallel computing
- Unicode support
- Perl 6 compiler
- Installing Rakudo Star
- Installing from packages
- Compiling from sources
- REPL shell
- Command-line options
- Part 1. The basics of the language (4 hours)
- Variables and types
- Scalars, arrays, hashes
- Ints, Rats
- Nums, Complex numbers
- Operators
- Categories
- Infixes, prefixes, postfixes
- Circumfix, postcircumfix
- Ternary operator
- Meta-operators
- Hyper-operators
- Control flow
- Functions (subroutines)
- Definiing a function
- Signatures
- Default and optional arguments
- Named arguments
- Passing arrays and hashes
- Defining your own operators
- Classes
- Defining a class
- Class attributes
- Class methods
- Hyerarchy
- Roles
- Part 2. Beyond the basics (3 hours)
- Regexes
- Matching
- Special characters
- Character classes
- Quantifiers
- Adverbs (modifiers)
- The Match object
- Parallel computing
- Junctions
- Threads
- Promises
- Channels