Picking Up Perl

CGI programming involves designing and writing programs that receive their starting commands from a Web page-usually, a Web page that uses an HTML form to initiate the CGI program. The HTML form has become the method of choice for sending data across the Net because of the ease of setting up a user interface using the HTML Form and Input tags.

Perl 5 by Example

This book is based on the learn-by-doing principle because I believe simply reading about a subject is not the best way to learn. After all, you don't read about putting together a jigsaw puzzle, you put the puzzle together yourself! Programming is the same way. You must actually run some programs in order to really understand the concepts.

Extreme Perl

Extreme Perl is a book about Extreme Programming using the programming language Perl. This site contains the entire book. Please send me your suggestions, questions, etc. to comments at extremeperl.org. You may also want to join the Extreme Perl Group at Yahoo! Groups to discuss Extreme Programming with Perl.

Programming Perl 5

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Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason

This book assumes that the reader is familiar with Perl at an intermediate level and that common Perl idioms don't stop you in your tracks. While you need not have written your own modules previously, familiarity with Perl's object-oriented syntax will be helpful.

CGI Programming 101

CGI Programming 101 will show you how to add guestbooks, page counters, shopping carts and other interactive elements to your website. CGI programming is easy to learn; if you know HTML, you can learn CGI. You don't need any prior programming experience.

Perl Tutorials

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Perl/Tk FAQ

This compilation of Frequently Asked Questions & answers (FAQ) is intended to answer several of the first (and largely more basic) questions posted to the comp.lang.perl.tk newsgroup and the ptk mailing list.

The Perl Directory

# Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. # It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors. # Perl is Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL). # Perl was created by Larry Wall. # Perl 1.0 was released to usenet's alt.comp.sources in 1987 # PC Magazine named Perl a finalist for its 1998 Technical Excellence Award in the Development Tool category. # Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Perl CGI Programming, Installation, Debugging

Obviously if you are going to run Perl scripts on your computer you will need to install Perl. You can obtain a Windows version of Perl free of charge from ActiveState.