1. Introduction

We've already introduced some good software engineering practices in the previous lectures, but this lecture is going to contain a concentrated discussion of them. We will explain the motivation for their use, and show how to implement them, while giving some “hands-on” demonstrations.

The mission of the Perl for Perl Newbies talks has been continued in our work on The Perl Beginners' site, which aims to be the premier web site for finding resources to learn about Perl.