Raku Fundamentals

1. What is Raku?
1.1 Perl 5, the Older Sister
1.2 Library Availability
1.3 Why Should I Use Raku?
2. Running Rakudo Raku
2.1 Installers
2.2 Docker
2.3 Building from Source
2.4 Testing your Rakudo Star Installation
3. Formatting a Sudoku Puzzle
3.1 Making the Sudoku Playable
3.2 Shortcuts, Constants, and more Shortcuts
3.3 IO and other Tragedies
3.4 Get Creative!
4. Datetime Conversion for the Command Line
4.1 Libraries To The Rescue
4.2 DateTime Formatting
4.3 Looking the Other Way
4.4 Dealing With Time
4.5 Tighten Your Seat Belt
4.6 MAIN magic
4.7 Automatic Tests
4.8 Summary
5. Testing say()
5.1 Summary
6. Silent Cron, a Cron Wrapper
6.1 Running Commands Asynchronously
6.2 Implementing Timeouts
6.3 More on Promises
6.4 Possible Extensions
6.5 Refactoring and Automated Tests
Refactoring
Mocking and Testing
Improving Reliability and Timing
Installing a Module
6.6 Summary
7. Stateful Silent Cron
7.1 Persistent Storage
7.2 Developing the Storage Backend
7.3 Using the Storage Backend
7.4 Room for Expansion
7.5 Summary
8. Review of the Raku Basics
8.1 Variables and Scoping
8.2 Subroutines
8.3 Classes and Objects
8.4 Concurrency
8.5 Outlook
9. Parsing INI files using Regexes and Grammars
9.1 Regex Basics
Character Classes
Quantifiers
Alternatives
9.2 Parsing the INI primitives
9.3 Putting Things Together
9.4 Backtracking
9.5 Grammars
9.6 Extracting Data from the Match
9.7 Generating Good Error Messages
Failure is Normal
Detecting Harmful Failure
Providing Context
Shortcuts for Parsing Matching Pairs
9.8 Write Your Own Grammars
9.9 Summary
10. A File and Directory Usage Graph
10.1 Reading File Sizes
10.2 Generating a Tree Map
10.3 Flame Graphs
10.4 Functional Refactorings
10.5 More Language Support for Functional Programming
10.6 More Improvements
10.7 Explore!
10.8 Summary
11. A Unicode Search Tool
11.1 Code Points, Grapheme Clusters and Bytes
11.2 Numbers
11.3 Other Unicode Properties
11.4 Collation
11.5 Summary
12. Plotting Using Inline::Python and Matplotlib
13. What''s Next?