Perl : training courses : Well House Consultants

Welcome to Well House Consultants' website. We offer training courses in a variety of Open Source subjects, including Perl, which is the technology that we're covering on this page. Please follow one of the links at the top of the page if you're looking for another of our technologies.

Courses run at our own training centre in Melksham, Wiltshire, England. Because many of our subjects are niche, we also provide overnight accommodation in our own hotel rooms within our training centre, and you may book the course and accommodation as a single package.

We run public courses, each of which is scheduled to run from 3 to 9 times per year, and on which we accept bookings from different organisations and individuals who wish to learn about Perl following our published agenda. Public courses are all written by ourselves, lead by our own tutor, and limited to just eight delegates per course so that the tutor has plenty of time to answer any questions that arise, and provide personal support during practical sessions.

We also run private courses for individual companies / organisations. Private courses are scheduled to suit our client's needs, and can run at our training centre or at customer premises almost anywhere in the world. Because our course materials are written by ourselves and modular, we can tailor private courses to suit our client's needs.

Public Perl courses offered:

The Perl programming language

Perl is breath of fresh air - a powerful scripting language with a short syntax and an impressive range of facilities that make for quick and effective coding in applications from heavy data handling to web page interaction, and from report generation through to systems admin tasks. But with that impressive range of facilities, you get the ability to write code that's hard to enhance and maintain, just as you get the ability to write code that is clean and efficient. So this is a language that you really need to learn from an expert rather than self-teach.

At Well House Consultants, we run:

• A 5 day Learning to program in Perl course that covers programming and Perl fundamentals, the more powerful "core" structures of the language that are required in most applications, and some of the more common advanced topics. Suitable for both newcomers to programming and those with limited prior programming too.

• A 4 day Perl Programming course that covers Perl fundamentals, the more powerful "core" structures of the language that are required in most applications, and some of the more common advanced topics. Suitable for delegates with prior programming experience.

• An advanced course covering object orientation in Perl, database access, and handling huge data sets - Perl for larger projects

• A further advanced course covering Perl's use on the Web.

• Our Regular Expression Course takes you deeper into Perl's powerful string handling facilities - one of the features that's brought this language to prominence.

If you've a group of three or more delegates who wish to learn about Perl at the same time, a Specially Run Courses course can be arranged, and for larger groups we can also run a Private Courses course at your offices. Such courses are tailored to meet your requirements - please contact us to discuss the detail of what you need. With Perl, we also have a huge range of extra training modules for niche requirements, so private courses aren't limited in topics.

We use Perl ourselves as the data tool behind this site, and our daily update is written in the language. That's in addition to a number of contract and bookkeeping scripts we've written over the years.

Perl was written by Larry Wall, who's still very much at the helm today. A new version - Perl 6 - is undergoing development at present and there are major factors that will come into play once a stable version is released. Be assured that we're already well informed about these and our current training will guide you towards futureproofing your code