Perl Tutorials
Many tutorials are available if you are interested in learning Perl. Please note that these tutorials are introductions. For reference material, please look at the perl documentation, either online or using the perldoc command (try perldoc perlintro).
Beginning Perl
A comprehensive book by Simon Cozens, available free online. It makes no assumption about the reader's existing programming experience. This is our most thorough offering.
The Perldoc Tutorials
The perl tarball includes these tutorials. Start with perlintro and then continue with other tutorials.
Perl 5.10 tutorials
Introduction tutorials.
Perl.com's Beginners Introduction to Perl
This six-part tutorial covers the basics, aiming to impart practical knowledge quickly.
Presentations
Dave Cross gave this presentation at the London Perl Workshop.LPW: Beginners Perl by Dave Cross
Dave Cross gave this presentation at the London Perl Workshop in December of 2007.
Other Collections of Tutorials
Perl Monks' Tutorials
Perl Monks has a wide and growing variety of community-reviewed tutorials, besides being one of Perl's largest community sites.
Perlmeme.org
Perl Meme provides tutorials, FAQs, and howto documents.
Video Tutorials
Video tutorials and screencasts of a tutorial nature.
ShowMeDo's "Introduction to Perl" series by Steven Devijver
Several basic videos introducing Perl for beginners available on the ShowMeDo site
Quick starts
Tip
Object Oriented programming Moose (and associated MooseX modules) are a postmodern object system for Perl 5
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