Platform and version details

This module is taught using Unix or a Unix-like operating system. Most of what is learnt will work equally well on Windows NT or other operating systems; your instructor will inform you throughout the course of any areas which differ.

All Netizen's Perl training courses use Perl 5, the most recent major release of the Perl language. Perl 5 differs signficantly from previous versions of Perl, so you will need a Perl 5 interpreter to use what you have learnt. However, older Perl programs should work fine under Perl 5.

The web server used for examples in this module is Apache. We have chosen this web server for examples as it is freely available, widely used, and very fast and full-featured.