When you write your first program in any language, you need to know how to structure the simplest of programs, where to store them, whether or not you need to use any special programs (compilers, loaders, task builders) before you run it, and how to run it. In this module, we cover all these topics and you write your first simple program, which prints a greeting on the screen.

This topic is presented on public course Perl Programming

hello	"Hello World"
hello_again	Performing one action after another - a sequence of statements
poor	A program that does something unexpected
wrong	A program with a syntax error