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This article is Part 6 of our series on Internet Programming. See the Introduction and Part 1, Introduction to HTML. This article covers the Perl "hash" data type.

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This article is Part 5 of our series on Internet Programming. See the Introduction and Part 1, Introduction to HTML. This article covers the Perl "list" data type.

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This article is Part 4 of our series on Internet Programming. See the Introduction and Part 1, Introduction to HTML. This article covers logical comparisons, making decisions with if, comparing text, while and for loops, and debugging hints.

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This article is Part 3 of our series on Introduction to Internet Programming series. See the Introduction and Part 1, Introduction to HTML. The Introduction to Perl covers the basics of Perl, including how to write and debug simple scripts.. Perl is a computer programming language that is very good at manipulating strings, doing pattern matches, and pretty much just about everything else! It is a relatively slow language compared to compiled languages like C, however it very easy to get programs up and running very quickly in Perl.

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This article is Part 2 of our series on Introduction to Internet Programming series. See the Introduction and Part 1, Introduction to HTML. The Introduction to Programming covers basic programming concepts and teaches the reader to develop "pseudo-code" for various tasks.

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Background

The "Introduction to Internet Programming with Perl and HTML" is classic a 12-part lecture series that Erik Kangas has given many times in the past to advanced high school and college students who are just starting to learn about programming web sites. This course works its way through the basic aspects of HTML and Perl gives new programmers and designers a solid foundation. This lecture series has been resurrected for the LuxSci FYI blog due to popular demand for its content.

Once you have completed this course, you will be ready to learn about JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets, intermediate Perl, databases, and more.

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