Week 7: Perl and CGI, Part 2

We wrap up our introduction to perl and cgi programming this week. We will look at a few more operations in perl and explore some example cgi scripts.

The following are the slides for last week and this week:

Week 6: Perl and CGI, Part 1
Week 7: Perl and CGI, Part 2

Week 7 Assignment:

• Chapter 12 Review Questions
• Hands-on Exercise 12-2

Week 6: Windows version of Perl

You can download a free version of Perl for Windows from ActiveState.

Week 6: Perl and CGI, Part 1

Week 6 Topics:

• Introduction to Perl
• Introduction to CGI Programming with Perl

Week 6 Assignment:

• Chapter 11 Review Questions
• Hands-on Exercise 11-1, 11-4

For a more detailed Introduction to the Perl language and CGI Programming, I recommend the following resources:

• [web]Beginner's Introduction to Perl by Doug Sheppard,
• [book]Learning Perl , Fourth Edition By Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Brian D Foy
• [book]Programming Perl , Third Edition By Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
• [book]CGI Programming with Perl, Second Edition By Scott Guelich, Shishir Gundavaram, Gunther Birznieks

Week 5: Midterm

Tonight we will have an in class midterm. There is no reading assignment and no homework.

Week 4: XML, Part 2

Week 4 Topics:

• Namespaces
• Default vs. Explicit Namespaces
• URI
• Creating and Validating a DTD

Week 4 Assignment:

• Chapter 4 Review Questions
• Hands-on Exercise 4-3, 4-4, 4-5