Final Grant Report : RPerl User Documentation #2

Will Braswell has submitted his final report (below) on his grant RPerl User Documentation, Part 2.

The Grants Committee welcomes comments from the community before it votes on completion of the grant.

MAJ


RPerl User Documentation, Part 2, Final Report

Name:

Will Braswell

Amount Requested:

USD 1,600

Deliverables

Deliverables for this grant proposal are:

1. Complete Learning RPerl Chapter 2

CHAPTER 2: SCALAR VALUES & VARIABLES (NUMBERS & TEXT)

2. Write Learning RPerl Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3: ARRAY VALUES & VARIABLES

3. Write Learning RPerl Chapter 4

CHAPTER 4: ORGANIZING BY SUBROUTINES

Inch-stones

Chapter 2 Scalar Data

1a. Numbers; Strings; RPerl’s Built-in Warnings; Scalar Variables

Section 2.1: Numeric Data & Operators

Section 2.2: Text Data & Operators

Section 2.3: RPerl´s Phases, Warnings & Errors

Section 2.4: Variables With Scalar Values

1b. Output with print; The if Control Structure; Getting User Input; The chomp Operator

Section 2.6: Displaying Output Using The print Operator

Section 2.7: Program Control Using The if Conditional Statement

Section 2.8: Receiving Input From The User & STDIN

Section 2.4.13: chop & chomp Operators

1c. The while Control Structure; The undef Value; The defined Function

Section 2.9: Program Control Using The while Loop

Section 2.4: Variables With Scalar Values

Chapter 3 Lists and Arrays

2a. Accessing Elements of an Array; Special Array Indices; List Literals; List Assignment

Section 3.3: How To Access Array Elements

Section 3.4: Array Length