This course is for anyone who needs a results-oriented introduction to Perl 5.
It is designed to give you a solid background in the Perl language, covering all of its major features and functions.

By working through the course lessons and exercises, you will gain the skills you need to:

1. Write effective Perl programs for common system-administration tasks
   
2. Take advantage of regular expressions--even in other languages
   
3. Understand, use, and modify Perl programs written by other people
   
4. Create quick, one-liner programs for simple everyday tasks
   
5. Move on to the next course in the Programming in Perl Series, Perl 2 Advanced Perl for the Web.

Before we actually start, take a few minutes to go over the following:

1. Course Perl Prerequisites
2. Course Course Structure Learning Perl
3. What you will need for this course