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Perl Power!: A JumpStart Guide to Programming with Perl 5
by Michael Schilli Paperback: 464 pages Dimensions (in inches): 0.83 x 9.22 x 6.74 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co ISBN: 0201360683; 1st edition (January 1999) The Web is booming, the majority of CGI applications are coded in Perl. For this reason, there is a huge number of beginners and intermediate developers wanting to get to know Perl in general and Internet applications with Perl in particular. Learn Perl basics and get up to speed with Internet and Object Oriented programming with just one book. Packed with hints and tips, solutions and exercises, Perl Power! is the perfect jumpstart guide to the hottest features of the latest Perl release. Beginners and intermediate developers an use the intermediate developers can use the introductory chapter to get up and running with Perl 5 fast, and a tutorial on object-oriented programming will supplement knowledge and help to fully exploit the power of Perl. Since use of freely available modules (included on the CD that comes with the book) dramatically accelerates the development of Perl applications, the book shows how to find the right module for common programming tasks and illustrates the use of many of them in detail. From the Inside Flap: About the book. After the two successful years that this book has been available in German-speaking countries, the publishers decided to translate it into English and allow me the opportunity to address not only my German countrymen but savvy Perl programmers throughout the world! This book has come a long way since it was first published: it was originally called Effektives Programmieren mit Perl 5, but when, about one year after the first edition was published, Joseph N. Hall's excellent Effective Programming with Perl 5 entered the international arena, this book was renamed GoTo Perl 5 - and now for the English edition, it has become Perl Power! - a happy coincidence, as everyone who works with me at aol is well aware of my constant bragging that 'Nothing's impossible, if you got the power of Perl!' In order to comply with international rules, we have adapted all of the examples to British and American standards. What this book covers. This book is intended to introduce Perl to the huge number of beginners and intermediate developers who need to use Perl to develop Internet applications, and who want to get up to speed quickly. The comprehensive introductory chapter provides a quick start for all users new to Perl. The detailed description of object-oriented programming with Perl which follows then allows intermediate Perl programmers to get up to speed with the latest features of the language. Exercises demonstrating commonly encountered problems and providing ready-to-use solutions encourage the reader to actively write programs and to speed up the learning process. As the use of freely available modules (included on the CD that accompanies the book) dramatically accelerates the development of Perl applications, the book provides guidance on locating the most relevant modules for common programming tasks and illustrates the use of many of these in detail. The book covers a wide variety of practical topics, including Utilities (calendar calculations, drawing charts), Internet Clients (retrieving pages from the Web, extracting HTML information, polling newsgroups and mail hosts, FTP/Telnet clients), CGI Programming (shopping carts) and graphical user interfaces with Perl/Tk. Acknowledgments. First and foremost, I would like to thank Larry Wall for creating Perl, and to state my admiration for all of the dedicated people in the Perl5 Porters group, who are doing a great job in constantly improving its implementation. I'd like to thank Steve Temblett, Fiona Kinnear, Julie Knight, and the entire Addison Wesley team in the UK for pulling this off, Hans-Dieter Rauschner for his great work and for his efforts to have me convert everything to international standards, and, of course, Thomas Wehren from Addison-Wesley Germany, who contacted me originally to write a book about Perl. And, naturally, none of the success I have recently experienced would have happened without the tireless support of my loving wife Angelika. From the Back Cover: beginners and intermediate developers can use the introductory chapter to get up and running with Perl 5 fast, and a tutorial on object-oriented programming will supplement knowledge and help to fully exploit the power of Perl. Internet users will learn how to automate repetitive tasks. Ready-to-go scripts show how to periodically check Web pages for changes, scan Newsgroups for interesting messages or send email. Perl Power! will enable you to write your own scripts to program-and-conquer the Internet! system administrators will find ways to automate many tasks of their day to day work software developers will gain advice on solving commonly occurring programming problems in short development cycles and unleashing the power of popular Perl modules. PERL POWER! • will help you get up and running writing your own applications with a wealth of practical solutions and examples showing real programming problems • provides detailed coverage of Perl on the Internet, including CGI,Web clients, Usenet, email, FTP and Telnet • shows how to ease the use of command line-driven Perl scripts by full-fledged mouse-driven Perl/Tk graphic user interfaces • comes with a CD and installation instructions for a quick start on the majority of UNIX system, Windows 95 and Windows NT The accompanying CD-ROM features all the programming examples from the book, together with a complete ready-to use Perl distribution for Windows 95/NT a free Apache Web Server and freely available modules which can be used to solve everyday programming problems. About the Author: Michael Schilli is a Web Engineer with America Online Inc. and his over eight years professional experience in software development. He is a regular contributor with both iX (European Unix magazine) and the Linux Magazin with monthly columns on Internet programming with Perl 5. Excerpted from Perl Power! : A Jumpstart Guide to Programming in Perl 5 by Michael Schilli. Copyright © 1999. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved If you are looking to bring the power of Perl to your workstation, this is the book for you. Now you can learn Perl basics and get up to speed with Internet and Object Oriented programming with just one book. Packed with hints and tips, solutions and exercises, Perl Power! is the perfect jumpstart guide to the hottest features of the latest Perl release. Beginners and intermediate developers can use the introductory chapter to get up and running with Perl 5 fast, and a tutorial on object-oriented programming will supplement knowledge and help to fully exploit the power of Perl. -internet users will learn how to automate repetitive tasks. Ready-to-go scripts show how to periodically check Web pages for changes, scan Newsgroups for interesting messages or send email. Perl Power! will enable you to write your own scripts to program-and-conquer the Internet! -system administrators will find ways to automate many tasks of their day to day work -software developers will gain advice on solving commonly occurring programming problems in short development cycles and unleashing the power of popular Perl modules. Perl Power! -will help you get up and running writing your own applications with a wealth of practical solutions and examples showing real programming problems -provides detailed coverage of Perl on the Internet, including CGI, Web clients, Usenet, email, FTP and Telnet -shows how to ease the use of command line-driven Perl scripts by full-fledged mouse-driven Perl/Tk graphic user interfaces -comes with a CD and installation instructions for a quick start on the majority of UNIX systems, Windows 95 and Windows NT. The accompanying CD-ROM features all the programming examples from the book, together with a complete ready-to-use Perl distribution for Windows 95/NT, a free Apache Web Server and freely available modules which can be used to solve everyday programming problems. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Casper Hulshof from The Netherlands From its corny title you might expect another one of those sleazy introductions to Perl (I can name a few), but I can happily say that this book is an exception. The overview of the language is excellent and very comprehensible. Even after reading Learning Perl and Programming Perl, I picked up some valuable tips. The chapters on Object Oriented Programming and Perl/Tk are also good. For the Perl/CGI part, you might consider reading additional material, however. All in all, a surprisingly good introduction and reference to Perl 5, both for the beginner and the more advanced programmer. Reviewer: Dennis Krystowiak from Detroit, Michigan Excellent book that gets you started with lots of areas of perl. Most of the code I have tried works fine with Activestates's 523 build and with the perl development kit 1.2.4. Having code that work is rare with these books especially with Windows. I use 98 and NT and unix. This book is not a diffinitive guide to perl but it gives you a good summay in most of the important area's and enought code to get started quickly. It gave me lots of ideas on things I could use perl for. I also like "Perl 5 Complete for theory", but the code for that book is very buggy and hard to get to work. I like its detailed explanation of how things are suppose to work. "Perl Cookbook" is also excellent for how to solve problems various kinds of problems. These are the best of the perl books I have. Reviewer: Dave from Boston, USA I bought this book based on the 5-star reviews - never do THAT again......long on abstract examples that don't mirror the real world, short on logical explanations for the common man(woman).. I have had several other PERL books from the local library that were much better (Castros book is good, don't believe the condescending reviews) - not for the CGI web programmer. Reviewer: Michael Tacelosky from Washington, DC Although my bookshelves are already full of 700-page perl books of the "Teach Yourself" variety, I was unable to find any good explanations of the LWP module. When I found a chapter devoted to LWP in Perl Power, I was thrilled and immediately bought the book. What I didn't expect was the bonus of someone finally providing a good explanation of Perl 5 and object-oriented perl. That section ALSO would have been worth the price of the book. Even the first chapter had all sorts of insights and explanations I found invaluable. I've been using perl off and on for about 3 years, mostly writing quick utilities, and I'll credit this book with wanting to make me use perl more. |
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