Geekuni

Learn Modern Perl by developing an airport search engine

* Get experience with Perl's programming constructs
* Write your own unit tested packages which can be used across projects
* Learn to minimize your work by using CPAN - over 100,000 modules provided by other developers

The exercises are interspersed with a project developing an airport search engine. This project will illustrate how the Perl skills you've acquired enable you to implement sophisticated functionality as a maintainable package with only a moderate amount of coding.

Learn the Dancer Perl web framework by developing an online game.

Dancer is closely aligned with modern web development concepts enabling you to quickly implement easily maintainable web sites and web services.

* Use the Model-View-Controller design pattern
* Generate HTML with Template Toolkit
* Generate JSON for a Web Service
* Track user activity with cookies and sessions
* Control access with redirect, forward and hooks
* Use object oriented Perl modules
* Have a taster of jQuery, Bootstrap and Isotope

The exercises are interspersed with a project to develop an online game. This project will demonstrate that the web development skills you've acquired enable you to implement a secure dynamic website.