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Introduction

• Perl is a powerful and unique interpreted language specifically suited for text processing.
• It is used across the world for CGI applications and system administration tasks.
• It has incorporated many features from various languages including dynamic typing, objects, and first-class functions (closures)
• This introductory Perl tutorial course for Windows will introduce you to the beginning concepts of Perl in a familiar Windows environment and show you how to set it up for CGI with Microsoft's Personal Web Server or Internet Information Server.
• I wrote this course as an accompaniment to a classroom course in Perl, but now this website is visited by Perl students from around the world.
• In addition to the basic Perl content, an appendix contains instructions on installing Perl and Microsoft's Personal Web Server on your Windows PC.

Prerequisites

• A student should be familiar with basic operation of a computer, how to open a DOS session, how to download and install a software package.
• Familiarity with at least one other programming language is not required, but it would be a definite asset. Since this course is directed at CGI programming,
• it is understood that the student should have a good working knowledge of HTML.

Goal

• Understand how CGI applications work
• Learn to use Perl's CGI.pm module
• Learn to create dynamic forms with Perl
• Learn to use server-side includes
• Learn to manage database data with Perl
• Learn to maintain sessions and use cookies with Perl
• Under web security issues