Getting Started

This tutorial is produced as an assignment for an undergraduate course at Davidson College

Audience :

The tutorial is for non-programmers who want to learn the basics of perl programming in order to solve problems related to biology.

What is needed:

In this tutorial, I will use "SubEthaEdit" as the perl editor. If you have a Mac computer, you can download "SubEthaEdit" for a one-month free trial at http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ .

Note: "SubEthaEdit" is not available for windows machine.

How this tutorial is presented:

This tutorial is divided into eight parts. For each part, there is an "Overview" section summarising which perl commands will be learned, an example including the source code and output, and a detailed explanation of the perl commands presented in the example.

 

Email Max Win if you have any questions.