1. Prof. Alfred J Bird, Ph.D., NBCT abird@cs.umb.edu Door Code: 536587* http://it441-f13-bird.wikispaces.umb.edu/ Office – McCormick 3rd floor 607 Office Hours – Tuesday and Thursday 4:00PM to 5:15PM

2.  Projects 30%  Quizzes 30%  Readings 10%  Final Project 30%

3.  A Good Lab Notebook  Beginning PERL – Apress – 3 rd Edition  Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration – Apress –  The Practice of System and Network Administration – Addison Wesley  A portable storage device (USB JumpDrive)

4.  Mastering Regular Expressions – O’Reilly  Learning Perl – O’Reilly  Programming Perl – O’Reilly  Systems Administration with Perl – O’Reilly  Perl Cookbook – O’Reilly

7.  Input / Output  Variables / Information Storage  Decision / Control Structures  Data Manipulations / Calculations

8.  Machine Language  Assembler / Macroassembler  Fortran  Cobol  C / C++  Python  Java  Perl  A multitude of others ……………

9.  Procedural  Algorithmic  Structured  Object Oriented  Et. al

12.  Must store entries as text without formatting  Programmer vs. text editors

13. How do we write a program using the PERL language to print out the phrase Hello World! ?

14. Open the file helloWorld.pl in any programming editor and enter the following text then save the file. #!/usr/bin/perl print “Hello World!\n”;

15. There is more than one way to run this program. ./helloWorld.pl  perl helloWorld.pl

16.  Read Chapter 1 “First Steps in Perl” pp 1-11 and complete exercise 1 on p12.