Further Reading/Information

There several good books on the market that teach Perl programming and also some that explicitly deal with CGI/Perl:

• Learning Perl, R.L. Schwartz, O'Reilly and Associates Inc. -- The "Llama Book". 1st edition introduces programming concepts with Perl 4. ]
• Programming Perl, L. Wall, T. Christiansen and R.L. Schwartz, O'Reilly and Associates Inc. -- The "Camel Book". A thorough Perl 5 reference with plenty of examples.
• Perl Cookbook, Tom Chritianson and Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly and Associates Inc. -- Excellent collection of Perl recipes to suite your every need. Lots of good solution and examples. I have borrowed a few examples for this course.
• Advanced Perl Programming, S.Srinivasan, O'Reilly and Associates Inc. -- A very good book to take your further into the realms of Perl
• Perl 5 Desktop Reference, J. Vromans, O'Reilly and Associates Inc.
• Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a Week, E. Herrmann, Sams.Net -- excellent guide to CGI aspects of Perl
• CGI Developer's Guide, E.E. Kim, Sams.Net
• CGI Programming on the World Wide Web, S. Gundavaram, O'Reilly and Associates Inc.

There are several good Web resources, Please also see Appendix A for a complete list of internet based Perl resources:

The Perl Home Page

-- http://www.perl.com

The Perl Institue

-- http://www.perl.org/

The Perl FAQ's

-- http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/

Usenet Newsgroups:

news:comp.lang.perl.announce, news:comp.lang.perl.misc.

Tom's Object-Oriented Perl Tutorial

: -- http://language.perl.com/all_about/perltoot.html

Randy's Column on OO Perl

-- http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col13.html