Notes for CS368, the scripting language course.

*This page may be public in the future.*  This may happen before the course concludes, although it probably won't.  Thus, include nothing students shouldn't potentially see.

1: [all] introductions; course mechanics (handout); course overview; getting and running Perl; resources
1: [TC] basic syntax: expressions, statements, basic loops
1: [AD] collections (lists/arrays, hashes); loops on collections
1: {wiki: ScriptingCoarseSession4 [NL] basic text file I/O (ARGV); file tests, directory access (globbing)}
1: [] procedures/subroutines/functions: using and writing (DRY)
1: [] regular expressions — syntax
1: [] regular expressions — usage
1: [] advanced data structures (e.g., references)
1: [] system processes
1: [] automatically available functions
1: [] libraries/modules in standard distro (command-line options); finding other modules; rolling your own
1: [] object-oriented scripting
1: [] error handling: print statements, error/exception handling, debugger
1: [] unit testing; inline documentation
1: [] web applications
1: [] student-voted problem solution or two


July
*: Mon 13 Introductions
*: Tue 14
*: Wed
*: Thu 16
*: Fri 17
*: Weekend
*: Mon 20
*: Tue 21
*: Wed
*: Thu 23
*: Fri 24
*: Weekend
*: Mon 27
*: Tue 28
*: Wed
*: Thu 30
*: Fri 31
*: Weekend
August
*: Mon 3
*: Tue 4
*: Wed
*: Thu 6
*: Fri 7 (Final class, no homework)