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Course:  

Perl and the World Wide Web

Lecturer:

Jeremy Holland

Date:

6:30  8:30 PM,Thursday,  April 6

Location:

Courtyard Marriott, 387 Winter Street, Waltham, MA  02451

CLASS DESCRIPTION:  The lecture will discuss how to implement basic Web functions in Perl, including retrieving web pages, creating CGI applications in Perl, and using mod_perl for server-side includes.

TARGET AUDIENCE:  Anyone who has some experience using Perl and wants to create an application that interfaces with a web server or cgi-bin scripts.

PREREQUISITE:  Attendees should have experience programming in Perl, including familiarity with basic object-oriented concepts. Attendees should also be familiar with World Wide Web concepts and protocols such as HTML, HTTP, and CGI. Detailed understanding of how the protocols work is not required.

Class notes will be provided.

COURSE OUTLINE:

  • The LWP library

  • Accessing web pages using LWP::Simple

  • Full control: using the libraries LWP, HTTP, HTML, and URI

  • Writing CGI applications in Perl

  • Server-side includes using mod_perl

  • Using Web protocols to implement business rules

SPEAKER’S BIOGRAPHY:  Jeremy Holland graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a B.S. in Computer Science in 1997.  He has worked at Matec Instrument Companies of Northborough, Massachusetts, creating software for ultrasonic inspection equipment; and at Analog Devices, Inc., of Wilmington, Massachusetts, developing software management and data control tools (primarily in Perl  for the Worldwide Manufacturing department.  He recently received an M.S. in Engineering Management from The Gordon Institute of Tufts University.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for  this Courses is monday, March 27, 2006

Course Fee Schedule:

REGISTRATION RECEIVED BY
March 23, 2006

REGISTRATION. RECEIVED AFTER
March 23, 2006

IEEE MEMBERS $70

IEEE MEMBERS $80

NON-MEMBERS $80

NON-MEMBERS $90

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