CS 205: Intermediate Programming

Online Resources for Perl Programming

Main Sites

• perl.org, a good place to get started.
• CPAN, for modules and other Perl extensions.

Fundamentals for running Perl

• Get Perl at perl.org.
• Resources for Perl Beginners from learn.perl.org. Various links.
• Cygwin, a complete Linux-like environment to run under Windows.
• ActiveState, home of pre-compiled Perl packages for Windows and other platforms.

Readings

• Books & Articles at perl.org.
• O'Reilly Safari, for online access to numerous electronic books, including the class texts. You can access these from on-campus locations and via the UAF Library's pages.

Tutorials, Explanations and Indexes

• Yahoo!'s Unix category (lots of general Unix help and tutorials are listed towards the bottom of the page)
• Yahoo!'s vi category. Try:
  • vim documentation, since most Linux distributions use vim, an enhanced vi
  • Mastering the vi editor at U. of Hawaii
  • vi knowledge base (includes a step by step tutorial)
• For Emacs, see the homepage at GNU.org. Here's a tutorial at UChicago. Here's another tutorial via Rutgers U.

Other stuff

• Transitioning from Windows to Linux (50-page FAQ from IBM)
• Unix FAQs at faqs.org
• Humor: Stupid Shell Tricks