Picking Up Perl, a Freely Redistributable Perl Tutorial Book. This site was created as an early distribution center for Picking Up Perl.
Picking Up Perl is a freely redistributable tutorial book on Perl. Currently, Bradley M. Kuhn is the primary author of the work. However, some others have contributed small patches, and lots of others have provided useful constructive criticism. Currently, edition 0.12 of the book is available. Due to his current demanding job, bkuhn hasn't had time to work on the book in over a year. Announcements Announcements of updates and changes to this book will be made here. Feedback Feedback to this work is welcome and encouraged. To give feedback without a patch, please do the following: For each suggestion, give two lines of context, and the name of the chapter or section where the lines occur.
Getting the Current Version This is the canonical location for obtaining the most recent version of Picking Up Perl. Browse HTML Download Postscript You can download the Postscript version of Picking Up Perl. Download PDF. Robert's Perl Tutorial. A basic Perl course primarily for use on Win32 platforms.
It assumes that the reader knows nothing of programming whatsoever, but needs a solid grounding for further work. After you finish this course you'll be ready to specialise in CGI, sysadmin or whatever you want to do with Perl. What you need to know You need to be able to differentiate between a PC and a toaster. No programming experience is necessary. You do need to exercise the brain cells, and you need time. What you need to have A PC which can run a Win32 operating system. Note: You don't even need a Win32 PC if you are comfortable installing Perl under other operating systems like Linux, but not all the information here will be relevant. You don't need a complier. How to use this tutorial... Just work through from start to finish. Generally, the explanation follows the code sample. When you finish, please send me a critique. Conventions used in this Tutorial The humour is non-conventional. Use of this document Personal Printouts.
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You're excited. You have problems to solve, and you know that a little bit of learning and some hard work will help you convince your computer to do things for you. You've started an important process, one that will benefit you greatly if you stick with it. Your good intentions are the first step. The fun begins now. The Basics If you already know a little bit about programming—if you understand the difference between values and variables, how if and else work, how to call functions and deal with their return values, and most important how to use a text editor and save a program and run it on your operating system of choice, you're way ahead of most people. If you're not sure if you know all of that, or if the meaning of those words weren't immediately obvious to you, you need to learn those first. That'll get you set up to write and to run Perl 5 programs.
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