Beginning Perl Programming
X32.9543.001 Summer 2000
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Course Handouts

• Handout #1 for May 25, 2000 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.
• Handout #2 for June 1, 2000 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.
• Handout #3 for June 8, 2000 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats. Here's an updated version of monte1.pl with corrected data at the end. Note that the only changes made were to repair the incorrect years. Also note that this file is posted as a .txt file to prevent client systems from trying to execute the code on download.
• Handout #4 for June 15, 2000 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats. Also, here are links to the files stock_template.html and stock_list.csv input files for Homework #4. Also note that these file are posted as .txt files so that client browsers will display them as text (rather than displaying them as a web page or trying to bring up Excel).
• Handout #5 for June 22, 2000 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats. Also, here is a link to the file error_log, which is a sample input file for Homework #5. Note: If you are working on acf5, you can obtain this file using the Unix command: cp /home/c/cg62/error_log .
• Handout #6 for June 29, 2000 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats. Here are links to the files map_gen.pl and map_info1.pl, which are related to Homework #6. Also note that these file are posted as .txt files so that client browsers will display them as text (rather than trying to execute them). Also, you can visit the Map Site Demo.
• Handout #7 for July 6, 2000 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.
• Handout #8 for July 13, 2000 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.
• Handout #9 for July 20, 2000 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.
• Handout #10 for July 27, 2000 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats. The associated PowerPoint presentation is also available in PDF format.

Implementation of Course Homeworks

• An implementation of Homework #1 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.
• The file SB200003.ASC is the data file for Homework #2. You can also refer to the US Treasury web site for the Savings Bond Value Files and a description of the format of this file. Note: If you are working on acf5, you can obtain this file using the Unix command: cp /home/c/cg62/SB200003.ASC .
• An implementation of Homework #2 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.
• An implementation of Homework #3 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.
• An implementation of Homework #4 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats. Note: it also has information on the extra-credit homework assignment due on June 29, 2000 (session #6).
• An implementation of Homework #5 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.
• An implementation of Homework #6 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.
• An implementation of Homework #7 is available in Microsoft Word 95 and PDF formats.

Other Course-Related Links

• Most recent Class roster with acf NetIDs.
• Visit the NYU Forums Home Page, or go directly to the Perl Forum for this course. Note: All you need to sign up for the Perl Forum is a valid EMail address - it does not need to be an NYU email address.
• List of final project ideas.
• How to set up a home page and Perl CGI on acf5.
• The recently published book Programming the Perl DBI (the "Cheetah Book") will be of interest to database developers. It is the 1st Edition, by Alligator Descartes (not his real name) and Tim Bunce, Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Feb 2000, ISBN 1-56592-699-4.
• Files and documentation relating to the demonstration of Perl's database connection and Web page generation discussed in Session 9:
  • SQL scripts for database management: demo_gen and demo_clobber.
  • Command-line Perl utilities to populate the database: iso_import and usps_import.
  • Data files: iso_3166.txt and usps.txt.
  • Command-line Perl utilities for database queries: dbcount, dbschema, cntFind, and cntInfo.
  • CGIs which perform database lookups: countries.cgi and countriesAll.cgi.
  • OraConnection Perl module: source code, PDF man page, and text man page.
  • GBasic Perl library: source code and text man page.
  • Encode Perl library: source code and text man page.

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Perl Resources

• Perl 5.004 Quick Reference Guide, by Johan Vromans is freely available in Postscript format and in PDF format. There is also a local copy of the PDF format at this site.
• O'Reilly and Associates book publishers.
• O'Reilly's Perl Resource Site and the O'Reilly Perl Center.
• The Perl Journal at www.tpj.com (not the Texans for Public Justice at www.tpj.org).
• Newsgroup comp.lang.perl
• CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network).
• Perl Mongers Perl advocacy group
• The Apache/Perl Integration Project - a perl plug-in module for the Apache web server
• ActivePerl binary distribution of perl 5.6.0 for Wintel environments.
• ActivePerl binary distribution files ppmfix.zip (47KB), InstMsi.exe (1.46MB), and ActivePerl-5.6.0.613.msi (8.17MB). Due to connectivity problems with the ActiveState web site, this site has local copies of the 3 files needed for an ActivePerl install. You'll need to run the InstMsi.exe first, then execute the .msi file. The .zip file is a patch to the installation. Disclaimer: These files are being made available on a fair-use basis for the students of X52.9543 basis, and are not being distrubuted for commercial purposes. Note: These files may be quickly outdated!
• Rebels of Perl interview with Larry Wall and Tom Christiansen.
• Perl Conference July 17-20, 2000, Monterey, California.
• Perl Cruise at the GeekCruises home page.
• Larry Wall's home page
• Charts by Ted Shieh summarizing the number of job listings on dice.com that mention any of the top programming languages. There is a chart showing raw job listing numbers and one segmented by percentages of total job listing.
• What Language is Perl?

Perl Man Pages in PDF format

For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into a number of sections:

• perl Perl overview (6pgs, 19KB)
• perldelta Perl changes since previous version (17pgs, 53KB)
• perltoc Perl documentation table of contents (122pgs, 337KB)

• perldata Perl data structures (11pgs, 33KB)
• perlsyn Perl syntax (11pgs, 29KB)
• perlop Perl operators and precedence (31pgs, 86KB)
• perlre Perl regular expressions (16pgs, 51KB)
• perlrun Perl execution and options (13pgs, 38KB)
• perlfunc Perl builtin functions (81pgs, 242KB)
• perlvar Perl predefined variables (16pgs, 45KB)
• perlsub Perl subroutines (21pgs, 55KB)
• perlmod Perl modules: how they work (7pgs, 21KB)
• perlmodlib Perl modules: how to write and use (18pgs, 52KB)
• perlmodinstall Perl modules: how to install from CPAN (7pgs, 20KB)
• perlform Perl formats (7pgs, 18KB)
• perllocale Perl locale support (17pgs, 54KB)

• perlref Perl references (11pgs, 33KB)
• perldsc Perl data structures intro (17pgs, 34KB)
• perllol Perl data structures: lists of lists (6pgs, 12KB)
• perltoot Perl OO tutorial (32pgs, 89KB)
• perlobj Perl objects (10pgs, 28KB)
• perltie Perl objects hidden behind simple variables (16pgs, 38KB)
• perlbot Perl OO tricks and examples (11pgs, 17KB)
• perlipc Perl interprocess communication (27pgs, 67KB)

• perldebug Perl debugging (28pgs, 72KB)
• perldiag Perl diagnostic messages (54pgs, 177KB)
• perlsec Perl security (7pgs, 24KB)
• perltrap Perl traps for the unwary (26pgs, 57KB)
• perlport Perl portability guide (24pgs, 74KB)
• perlstyle Perl style guide (4pgs, 12KB)

• perlpod Perl plain old documentation (6pgs, 14KB)
• perlbook Perl book information (1pgs, 2KB)
• perlembed Perl ways to embed perl in your C or C++ application (19pgs, 46KB)
• perlapio Perl internal IO abstraction interface (5pgs, 13KB)
• perlxs Perl XS application programming interface (25pgs, 64KB)
• perlxstut Perl XS tutorial (14pgs, 38KB)
• perlguts Perl internal functions for those doing extensions (64pgs, 150KB)
• perlcall Perl calling conventions from C (33pgs, 75KB)

• perlhist Perl history records (11pgs, 18KB)

Perl FAQ Man Pages in PDF format

• perlfaq Perl frequently asked questions (3pgs, 10KB)
• perlfaq1 General Questions About Perl.
  Very general, high-level information about Perl. (5pgs, 20KB)
• perlfaq2 Obtaining and Learning about Perl.
  Where to find source and documentation to Perl, support, and related matters. (9pgs, 31KB)
• perlfaq3 Programming Tools.
  Programmer tools and programming support. (11pgs, 37KB)
• perlfaq4 Data Manipulation.
  Manipulating numbers, dates, strings, arrays, hashes, and miscellaneous data issues. (27pgs, 72KB)
• perlfaq5 Files and Formats.
  I/O and the `` f '' issues: filehandles, flushing, formats and footers. (20pgs, 55KB)
• perlfaq6 Regexps.
  Pattern matching and regular expressions. (12pgs, 34KB)
• perlfaq7 General Perl Language Issues.
  General Perl language issues that don't clearly fit into any of the other sections. (16pgs, 43KB)
• perlfaq8 System Interaction.
  Interprocess communication (IPC), control over the user-interface (keyboard, screen and pointing devices). (20pgs, 59KB)
• perlfaq9 Networking.
  Networking, the Internet, and a few on the web. (11pgs, 32KB)

NYU Resources

• NYU/SCPS Catalog description for this course.
• NYU photo ID card information
• NYU SCPS Grading Policy ^mm, including information on requesting a grade of Incomplete.
• After the last lecture, get your grade via TorchTone ^mm

Computing Resources for acf5 / Unix^tm

• NYU acf5 home page
• Status of ITS Computers, including information on acf5.
• Accounts on acf5 ^mm
• Directory of NYU computer labs
• Gateway to the Unix man pages ^mm
• ACF Help Center, or call (212) 998-3333.
• ACF Accounts Office, or call (212) 998-3035.
• My Coursework Computer Account is Going to Expire! What Can I Do?
• ACF documentation
• The NYU-NET CD, a CD-ROM for getting established with Internet clients (FTP, Telnet, Netscape, Eudora) for remote access to acf5.

Misc Resources

• MKS tools for Unix-Windows Co-Existence
• Unix command summary originally by Ann McDermott, with modifications by Isaac Rozenfeld.
• Unix online documentation ^am including the helpful vi editor quick reference ^am and the Helpful Korn Shell Features ^am page.
• Article on How Regular Expressions Work by Mark-Jason Dominus. Also refer to the Cover Page for this article.
• The Tao of Programming

Acknowledgements

Email comments/questions to clint@goss.com