Download 19 Free Perl Books and eBooks - Part 2

Reading Perl 5 by Example is the easiest way to learn Perl! Teach yourself Internet programming and CGI scripting. This book is based on the learn-by-doing principle because I believe simply reading about a subject is not the best way to learn. After all, you don’t read about putting together a jigsaw puzzle, you put the puzzle together yourself! Programming is the same way. You must actually run some programs in order to really understand the concepts.

This book is for those new to programming who want to learn with Perl. You will find it easier if you already have some basic programming experience, but the material covered can be mastered by anyone with just a text editor, some common sense and a computer. If you want to learn how to program with Perl and then find out how far you can go with it, this is the book for you. An excellent companion on any programming course.

CGI Programming 101 will show you how to add guestbooks, page counters, shopping carts and other interactive elements to your website. CGI programming is easy to learn; if you know HTML, you can learn CGI. You don’t need any prior programming experience.

This free Perl book contains a concise description of all Perl statements, functions, variables and lots of other useful information. The purpose of the Reference Guide is to aid in the use of Perl, to look up the syntax of specific functions, statements and the meaning of built-in variables.

Free online book Higher-Order Perl by by Mark Jason Dominus is about functional programming techniques in Perl. It’s about how to write functions that can modify and manufacture other functions.

This is a free perl book from O’Reilly Open Books Project. It is an old book about CGI programming with Perl. What will you encounter here? A variety of powerful applications that you can use and that will serve as models for your own CGI scripts. Among the complete applications in the book are an animated clock, a search tool, a survey, a quiz program, a game, a gateway to Usenet News, and an appointment calendar based on a clickable imagemap.

This is a free perl book from O’Reilly Open Books Project. mod_perl is an Apache module that builds the power of the Perl programming language directly into the Apache web server.

This is a free perl book from O’Reilly Open Books Project. Web Client Programming with Perl is a behind-the-scenes look at how your web browser interacts with web servers. Readers of this book will learn how the Web works and how to write software that is more flexible, dynamic, and powerful than the typical web browser.

Free perl book Picking Up Perl can be downloaded in variuos formats. The material covered in this book is designed to prepare the reader to enter the world of Perl programming. This book covers the basic data and control structures of Perl, as well as the philosophies behind Perl programming. The native search patterns used in Perl, called regular expressions, are introduced and discussed.