Course of Raku / Essentials

Basic introduction to Raku and its compiler

• What is Raku
• Raku vs. Rakudo
• How to install Rakudo
• Editors and IDEs
• Conventional file extensions
• Hello, World!
• Notes on using Unicode
• Running programs — 1 exercise
  • Running from command line
  • Running from REPL
  • Running from IDE
  • Using docker
  • Using online services
• Simple input and output
  • Output with say
  • Input with prompt
• Comments
  • Single-line comments — 1 quiz
  • Multi-line comments
  • Embedded comments