Learn How to Program Perl: Lesson 1

- Getting Started
- The Hello World Program
- Taking input from the user
- Conditionals

I want to apologize for this being raw footage. I tried to edit with iMovie, then with YouTube Video Editor, and finally Mozilla Popcorn, and nothing wanted to cooperate today. So, here it is...a little rough around the edges, but hopefully okay nonetheless.

[ckildegaard]

Just added the link in the description. Thank you for your interest in my videos!

[FernandoBasso]

Thanks. I'm from brazil, but you talk in a pace and way/pronunciation that is very easy to understand.

Very nice video for a very nice programming language.

[ckildegaard]

Hello, eric. The commands on a Windows system will be slightly different (unless you download, install, and configure the Cygwin application), so please see the text version of the lesson. A link is available in the description.

[robdiac]

@ Tom, I'm very sure you can add in your if chris an OR statement and include Chris there

[ckildegaard]

I am glad that I can be of assistance. Another video is coming very soon.

[amecarethqc]

Can I also make my programs with Visual Code as a text editor?

[FireBoy]

This channel is my best discover ever on YouTube Thank you ckildegaard 

[ericstolte]

Hi, I am on a windows 7 pc. I am in my cmd and i typed what you did and it says "The system cannot find the path specified" I tried typing documents with a capital and lower case "D". the same result occured. any ideas on how i can fix this?

[leroyphillips]

Great video; very simple, yet concise and informative.
Thanks

[suryaprakashdama]

Same here! My prompt does nothing until I enter the input. It prints both "hello world" and my name after I enter the name. I am using cygwin and executing the perl script from the folder which has perl.exe using the command "perl.exe helloworld.pl:. Do you know why this could be happening?

[StandardDeviationMusic]

My version didnt print anything but put up the input first...
So when i ran the pl... it was a blank line with no hello world and what is you rname
it asked those after i typed in the console...
how do i fix this?

[hspahuja]

Nice Video. Where is the link to lesson 2 ?

[Indecirphrus]

What Cygwin packages should I install?

[supadupahilton]

Hi, sorry for the Newb question: You mentioned that Cygwin can be used?? .. but also a text editor like Notepad++? It seems I can run the program in Notepad++ but not really sure where Cygwin comes in? -Thanks.

[phuongkhanhcdcdkg]

Thank you so much! I just started, but i could understand! Very clear explanation!

[ckildegaard]

Thank you for the wonderful comments, you both! More are coming as soon as I get my primary computer back. For now, you can find more lessons on my website (see description).

[RicardoDiaz]

Great video, easy to understand
-Thanks ckildegaard

[UNIXSOLJASysadminSyndicate]

Thanks so much for this. I am a system engineer in windows and have found a solid market for being able to do win and Linux so I have decided to teach myself to code and go after red hat certs. This has been so easy to follow. I started with strawberry Perl but decided to install Ubuntu as I wanted to work with the real thing and am just finishing the addition calculator.

How much work is there for Perl vs say Ruby and Python?

[bharathirajayogi]

Very simple and clear..thanks a lot.. keep on doing..

[EmilNicolaiePerhinschi]

Perl is not intepreting the code line by line, it is compiling, storing the compiled code in memory and executing it