Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due...

When I began learning Perl, I bought the O'Reilly & Associates Inc. book entitled "Programming perl". I next turned to the web. I found the majority of my information from a page created by a man named Nik Silver. In fact, his Perl tutorial made it easy for me to learn the language of perl quickly and most importantly thoroughly. I decided that learning the language couldn't be presented any better than the tutorial created by Mr. Silver. Therefore I have made a mirror of his tutorial, and that is what you will see here. Here is the beginning excerpt from his tutorial:

This is the start of a tutorial on Perl, originally run by me, Nik Silver, as the first part of a one-day hands-on workshop at the School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, in the UK. The second part of the workshop looked a designing pages for the World Wide Web using Perl to deal with buttons and text boxes to generate custom Web pages on the fly. Creating a Web page without all these things is a much easier task. There is information about this at NCSA's definitive Beginner's Guide to HTML.

There are plenty of other Perl tutorials around, and most (if not all) of them can be found at the UF/NA Perl Archive. However I wanted something that included exercises developing a consistent theme; none of the others seemed to do this.

This tutorial assumes a very basic knowledge of UNIX and concentrates on how to write basic working perl programs. It does not explain why many things are as they are, nor does it draw generalisations about the language; it is assumed that the reader can make most of these inferences correctly for themselves. You can find more information on those topics elsewhere (see above).

This tutorial is available in plain text format on anonymous FTP at ftp://agora.leeds.ac.uk/scs/doc/. The first file to get is whole-perl-tutorial.readme which explains what to do about the main file whole-perl-tutorial.txt.gz.

Thanks to Neil Bowers whose Perl page is where I ripped off the camel icon (though he ripped it off someone before me, of course) and to our Support team for their technical wizardry.

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due...

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