Other Perl books assume C programming experience and a great deal of programming knowledge and sophistication. This tutorial starts with basic concepts and builds upon them. Each chapter contains a Q&A section, summary, quiz, and a series of exercises which allow readers to practice using the language features they have just learned.
This text uses illustrations to explain constructs such as associative arrays and uses tables at appropriate points to serve as handy references. It shows readers how to apply knowledge to develop dynamic user interfaces into Windows NT databases.
'Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days' covers the basics in the first few chapters, and then moves on to practical uses of Perl and in-depth discussions of more advanced topics. Perl is a popular programming language typically used in Unix systems.
The sixth edition of this bestselling Perl tutorial includes recent changes to the language. Years of classroom testing and experience helped shape the book's pace and scope, and this edition is packed with exercises that let readers practice the concepts while they follow the text.
This guide teaches readers how to design and implement their an open source database. Topics include designing and creating a database; normalizing data; adding tables, columns and indexes; importing and exporting data; administering, optimizing and troubleshooting My SQL; and locks and keys.
Ruby is a high-level, fully object-oriented programming (OOP) language. It is very powerful and relatively easy to learn, read, and maintain. Sams Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days provides the best introduction to this language and addresses one of the key constraints it faces: "The paucity of quality English-language documentation is one of the few things holding Ruby back from widespread adoption," according to Dr. Curtis Clifton of Iowa State University¿s Department of Graduate Computer Science.
The book covers XSLT and Xpath (as a part of XSLT). As these topics have everything to do with processing XML. It will also cover XML from an XSLT processing and design point of view. XSL Formatting Objects alone form enough material for an entire book. Apart from that XSLT and Xpath form the processing/programming section of the entire XSL specification
Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible. This book is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones.Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules offers a gentle but thorough introduction to advanced programming in Perl. Written by the authors of the best-selling Learning Perl, this book picks up where that book left off. Topics include: Packages and namespaces References and scoping Manipulating complex data structures Object-oriented programming Writing and using modules Contributing to CPAN Following the successful format of Learning Perl, each chapter in the book is designed to be small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with a series of exercises to help you practice what you've learned. To use the book, you just need to be familiar with the material in Learning Perl and have ambition to go further.Perl is a different language to different people. It is a quick scripting tool for some, and a fully-featured object-oriented language for others. It is used for everything from performing quick global replacements on text files, to crunching huge, complex sets of scientific data that take weeks to process. Perl is what you make of it. But regardless of what you use Perl for, this book helps you do it more effectively, efficiently, and elegantly.Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules is about learning to use Perl as a programming language, and not just a scripting language. This is the book that separates the Perl dabbler from the Perl programmer.
"Intermediate Perl" offers a clear roadmap for improving readers' skills and gain working knowledge of Perl's objects, references, and modules--ingredients that make the language so versatile and effective. This book offers a gentle but thorough introduction to intermediate programming in Perl.
Takes a tutorial approach towards developing and serving Java applets, offering step-by-step instruction on such areas as motion pictures, animation, applet interactivity, file transfers, sound, and type. Original. (Intermediate).