Basics
- Program structure
- Standard input, output and error
- Input and output functions and 
  constructs

Data types, expressions, operators
- Integers, floats, strings
- Scalars, variables, assignment 
  and scope
- Creating expressions using 
  operators
- Conversion functions

Basic control structures
- Relational expressions
- if and related tests
- Looping
- Simple subroutines

Other control structures
- Expression modifiers
- Using logical operators as control 
  structures
- foreach with ranges
- Labels and other loop constructs

Normal arrays & lists
- Defining normal arrays
- Assigning and extracting values
- foreach with arrays
- Array dimensions, extending and 
  reducing arrays...pop, shift, push, 
  unshift
- Other array functions: sort, 
  reverse, split, join

Functions & advanced subroutines
- Creating your own functions and 
  subroutines
- return value
- Passing arguments.the @_ array
- my() and local() functions

Associative arrays or hashes
- Defining associative arrays
- Assigning and extracting hash 
  elements
- Associative array functions...key, 
  values, each, exists, delete

Reading & writing text files
- Filehandles and opening and 
  closing files
- Reading/writing data
- die, warn, exit and the special 
  variable $!
- File tests, e.g. -x FILENAME

Special variables
- Global special variables
- Array and hash special variables
- Regular and per-filehandle special 
  vars.

File & Directory Manipulation
- Emulating operating systems 
  commands
- Globbing and directory handles

format & the write() function
- Defining a format
- Invoking a format...the write() 
  function
- Top-of-page format
- Changing the filehandle using 
  select()

Regular expressions
- Match operators and range 
  operators
- Metacharacters
- Alternation, grouping, 
  character classes and 
  multipliers

Text processing & manipulation
- Simple string functions 
- Advanced string functions
- Substitution operator
- Transliteration operator
- Regular expression 
  backreferences
- Advanced array functions. 
  splice, map, grep
- using @ARGV for multi-file 
  processing
- in-place editing

Introduction to references
- Creating references; 
  dereferencing
- Multidimensional arrays via 
  references
- Anonymous data structures
- More complex data structures

Packages & module basics
- package, use and require 
  keywords
- standard library modules and 
  examples
- specialised import lists
- The CPAN

Perl & CGI programming
- The CGI specification
- Using Perl with a web server 
  program
- Preparing a Perl program for 
  web server use
- CGI.pm and related modules
- Unbundling data from the 
  client
- Sending dynamic HTML 
  documents
- Multiple data items
- Multi-page applications

Real & pseudo-database processing
- Unix DBM databases and DBM 
  hashes
- SDBM_File.pm
- Pseudo databases
- Database modules: DBI/DBD
- Win32::ODBC
- Combining CGI and database 
  access