[Courses] Perl course overview

[Alice Wood]

Hell o everyone,

Welcome to the Perl course. You should receive two mails today, this one as an 
introduction and a second containing part one of the course. I am writing 
this to give you an idea of how the course will (hopefully) plan out  and 
what I hope to do in future installments.

The course will roughly follow the Learning Perl book, and I will refer to 
that where appropriate in the mails I send. The first few lessons are planned 
as:

1) Getting started
2) Scalar data and chomp
3) Control structures including if and while
4) Arrays: foreach
5) Arrays: reverse and sort

Given the amount of material we have to cover this may extend.

I am publishing the lessons on http://www.schiffwood.demon.co.uk as they are 
put onto the mailing list and there should be a mirror on linuxchix soon. The 
website also includes helpful websites and a list of useful books is also 
developing, if you have any suggestions then please put them forward.

Please feel free to let me know your thoughts on the course. As the exercises 
develop I hope to include different versions of answers in the lessons, so if 
you come up with something different then send it in. I look forward to 
getting to know everyone during the course.

Best wishes,

Alice
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