Perl How to Program

This new book in the Deitels' How to Program series is a comprehensive guide to programming with Perl. It emphasizes the use of the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) with Perl to create powerful dynamic Web content for e-commerce applications. The book begins with a clear and careful introduction to the concepts of structured programming at a level suitable for beginners to programming, and proceeds through advanced topics such as references and complex data structures. Important topics in Perl such as regular expressions (Chapter 8) and string manipulation (Chapter 9) receive a detailed treatment. The authors address important and topical issues such as object-oriented programming (Chapter 14), the Perl database interface (DBI) (Chapter 15), graphics (Chapter 21) and security (Chapter 19). Also included is a significant treatment of XML (Chapter 22) and the Python programming language. There is a complete chapter on Web accessibility that addresses programming and technologies relevant to accessibility for people with disabilities. Appendices include detailed instructions for installation of Perl and server configuration for CGI scripts. Perl How to Program is geared toward both Unix/Linux and Windows users.

Features

• Signature “Live Code Approach” —Language features are presented in the context of a wide variety of complete working programs. Features thousands of lines of code in hundreds of complete working programs.
• • Enables readers to confirm that programs run as expected. Readers can also manipulate the code from the CD-ROM in the back of the book or from the book's Companion Website (www.prenhall.com/deitel).
• Web-based multi-tier applications.
• • Students learn from these applications and use them as a reference for real-world applications.
• Outstanding, consistent and applied pedagogy—Icons throughout identify Software Engineering Observations; Good Programming Practices; Common Programming Errors; Portability Tips; Performance, Testing and Debugging tips.
• • Provides hundreds of valuable programming tips and facilitates learning.
• Extensive set of interesting exercises and substantial projects.
• • Students can apply what they've learned in each chapter.
• CD-ROM with each text.
• • Source code for all the book's examples, hyperlinks to Perl/CGI demos and Internet resources and the following software: ActivePerl, Perl Source 5.6, Apache and MySQL.
• Also available with the Multimedia Cyber Classroom CD-ROM—In The Complete Perl Training Course, Student Edition (0-13-089554-7).
• • Provides additional hands-one experience and study aids for a minimal cost. Includes: many hours of detailed, expert audio descriptions of “live code,” hundreds of self-review questions (half with answers, hundreds of programming exercises (half with answers), hundreds of tips that are marked with icons and show how to write Perl code that's portable, reusable, and optimized for performance, and full-text searching and hyperlinking.
• Complete chapter on web-accessibility.
• • Addresses programming and technologies relevant to accessibility for the disabled.

• 1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and the World Wide Web.
• 2. Introduction to Programming in Perl.
• 3. Control Structures: Part I.
• 4. Arrays and Hashes.
• 5. Control Structures: Part II.
• 6. Subroutines and Functions.
• 7. Introduction to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI).
• 8. Regular Expressions.
• 9. String Manipulation.
• 10. File Processing.
• 11. File and Directory Manipulation.
• 12. Formatted Output.
• 13. References.
• 14. Objects.
• 15. Perl Database Interface (DBI).
• 16. Session Tracking and Cookies.
• 17. Web Automation and Networking.
• 18. Process Control.
• 19. Security.
• 20. Complex Data Structures.
• 21. Graphics and Perl/Tk.
• 22. Perl and XML: A Web-Based Message Forums Application.
• 23. Accessibility: Developing for the Disabled.
• 24. Bonus Chapter: Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part I.
• 25. Bonus Chapter: Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part II.
• 26. Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Python Programming.
• Appendix A: HTML Special Characters.
• Appendix B: HTML Colors.
• Appendix C: ASCII Character Set.
• Appendix D: Operator Precedence Charts.
• Appendix E: Number Systems.
• Appendix F: Installing Apache Web Server.
• Appendix G: Installing Perl.
• Appendix H: Installing Python.
• Appendix I: Career Resources.
• Appendix J: Registering an ODBC Data Source.