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What previous students say:

• This was a truly excellent experience... Your incredible knowledge of the systems involved is up to any question -- and you made even the mind-numbing stuff enjoyable with the added anecdotes and humor. Ken Meyer, Software Instructor, Seattle Central Community College "UNIX/Linux Fundamentals" student	• A great way to take your Perl skills beyond the basics. If you need to make your Perl code more robust, efficient, and secure, you need to take this course! Gary Schmidt, Software Specialist, AT&T Wireless "Intermediate Perl" student
• Very good class, straight to the point! I learned a lot of stuff I can use immediately. G. Mpeye, Sr. Application Analyst, Western Wireless "Minimal Perl" student	• The class was very well put together and organized ... overall, the whole experience was very worthwhile. Mike Smitkin, Web Developer, Washington Mutual Bank "Minimal Perl" student

Crowd Pleasing Classes in Seattle WA

by Dr. Tim Maher

SeaTac: 7/15-7/18
UNIX/Linux Fundamentals

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This course is for those who want to start down the path to becoming UNIX/Linux Power-Users.
It provides an introduction to Shell scripting and hands-on experience with the most important UNIX/Linux utilities, including vi, grep, sed, awk, and sort. You won't learn a thing about how to set your screen's background to show a photo of your cat, but by the end of the class you'll be comfortable setting file permissions, using the vi (or vim) editor to edit files and mistyped commands, using regular expressions to select matching text from files, composing multi-stage pipelines that generate custom reports, writing custom shell scripts, and accessing remote systems using the Secure Shell.
For this offering of the course, we'll have both UNIX and Linux systems on hand so students can appreciate their numerous similarities, and minor differences, from an end-user's point of view.
See the course outline for more information on the specific topics this course covers.

SeaTac: 8/4-8/6
Perl Programming

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This is a three day hands-on course for those new to Perl who want to learn the basics of the language. It is the prerequisite for all our other Perl courses, except for Minimal Perl. Students write nearly two dozen programs in eleven sessions of supervised laboratory activities.
See the course outline for a detailed listing of the topics that are covered.

SeaTac: 8/7-8/8
Using Perl Modules

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This course teaches you how to use free CPAN code in your programs, so you won't have to duplicate the effort of writing the equivalent code yourself. There's nothing else you can learn about Perl that will enhance your productivity more!
See the course outline for Using Perl Modules for more information on the topics that are covered.

SeaTac: 8/18-8/20
Shell Programming

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This course shows the student how to create custom programs using the basic features of UNIX/Linux shells of the "Bourne/Korn/POSIX" family (which excludes the C-shell). The student also learns how to organize utility programs into pipelines, which can obviate the need to write custom programs. The Instructor will demonstrate common mistakes and defenses against them, and the use of the Consultix Shell Quoting Guidelines, which make a notoriously difficult operation easier to handle. See the course outline for further details.

SeaTac: 8/21-8/22
UNIX/Linux Utilities

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The Shell Programming course teaches the grammar of the language, which is essential knowledge, but of little value without a familiarity with its vocabulary, which is covered in this course. Students learn how to use essential utility programs, such as sed, grep, sort, tail, tr, find, xargs, and especially awk (the much simpler predecessor to Perl), to quickly solve data processing problems. See the course outline for further details.

SeaTac: 9/15
Minimal Perl

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This unique and innovative course teaches a carefully crafted subset of Perl that's easily learned by UNIX and Linux people, and that provides a solid foundation for writing custom programs to handle common types of data processing tasks. Dr. Tim Maher has been using this technnique to teach Perl since 2000, in corporate training classes and Perl conferences, and it's the subject of his critically acclaimed book Minimal Perl. See the course outline for further details.

SeaTac: 9/16-18
Intermediate Perl Programming

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This course, taught by Perl author and speaker Dr. Tim Maher, takes you beyond the beginner stage by showing you how to use complex data structures, references, the eval, map, and grep functions, and advanced debugging tricks to improve your Perl code and your programming productivity. See the course outline for further details.

These courses and others are also available for on-site presentations!