Perl 6 Training and course material

Introduction to Perl 6

Below you can find the most recent version of my Perl 6 related training slides. They are a preliminary version of the material. There are still lots of things to add and fix.

Length

Currently the training can be 1 or 2 days long.

Syllabus

Setup

• Setting up Parrot and Rakudo to be able to run Perl 6
• Setting up Padre with the Perl 6 plug-in so we have a partial IDE for Perl 6

• Scalars
• Basic I/O
• Dealing with Files (I/O)
• Control Structures (loops, conditionals)
• Chained comparison
• Lists and Arrays
• Hashes
• Subroutines, Multi dispatch subroutines, signatures
• Junctions

• Regexes, Grammars and Rules
• Classes
• Meta operators

Course Materials

• Introduction to Perl 6
• Perl 5 to 6 transition (one of the chapters from the Introduction)

Other Perl 5 and Perl 6 related pages.