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Course Descriptions

The 2008-2009 program is underway and is no longer accepting applications Single courses may be available Next program starts: Autumn 2009 Details will be posted in Spring Program location: Downtown Seattle Sign up to receive e-mail updates >> Contact a program representative >>

Interested in taking a single class? Some courses (designated by a below) may be open on a space-available basis to professionals who are not seeking the certificate. See Single-Course Enrollment for details.

Courses in this program are sequential, beginning in Autumn. A certificate and nine Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are awarded to participants upon successful completion of the program. Each class takes place in a laptop computer laboratory, where students gain hands-on experience solving in-class programming problems.

Autumn Course

Basic Perl Programming

Schedule: (10 sessions), Mondays, 6-9 p.m., Oct. 6 - Dec. 8, 2008; $648; 3 CEUs. Instructor: Doug Treder

Provides an introduction to Perl programming. Topics:

• The Perl world; www.perl.com, CPAN, documentation, resources
• Basic data types, scalar, arrays and hashes
• Regular expressions
• Control structures, loops and blocks
• Subroutines
• I/O and file and directory functions
• Understanding and using scope

How to sign up for individual enrollment in this course

Winter Course

Advanced Perl Concepts

Schedule: (10 sessions) Mondays, 6-9 p.m., Jan. 5 - March 16, 2009 (additional class on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009); $648; 3 CEUs. Instructor: Doug Treder

Builds on the foundation of Basic Perl Programming, introducing increasingly sophisticated Perl tools and techniques. Topics:

• DBM files
• References and complex data structures
• Introduction to relational database access and the DBI module
• Object-oriented programming
• Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Persistence

How to sign up for individual enrollment in this course

Spring Course

Perl, the Web and Databases

Schedule: (10 sessions) Mondays, 6-9 p.m., Mar. 30 - June 8, 2009 (no class May 25); $648; 3 CEUs. Instructor: Joel Grow

The program's final term applies the tools of Perl to web and internet programming. Topics:

• HTML, HTTP, CGI, SSL
• Using CGI.pm
• Persistence on the web
• SQL and DBI.pm
• Apache and mod-Perl
• XML, SOAP and Web Services
• Real-world Website design

How to sign up for individual enrollment in this course