Table of Contents

Part 1 ? Basics, Data Flow, and Program Flow Chapter 1 ? The Programmer?s Introduction to the Perl Computer Chapter 2 ? Perl 6 Road Map Chapter 3 ? Stricture by Default
Part 2 ? Variables, Arrays, and Control Structures Chapter 4 ? Text, Numbers, and Other Constant Data Chapter 5 ? Names, Containers, and Values Chapter 6 ? Operators Chapter 7 ? Multidimensional Arrays Chapter 8 ? Data Structures Chapter 9 ? Switch Chapter 10 ? Block Structure Chapter 11 ? Subroutines
Part 3 ? Threads and Objects Chapter 12 ? CPAN Modules Chapter 14 ? Objects Chapter 15 ? Exceptions Chapter 16 ? Type Safety Chapter 17 ? Multithreading
Part 4 ? Computer Science Chapter 18 ? Any and All Chapter 19 ? Lexical Closures Chapter 20 ? Continuations Chapter 21 ? Coroutines Appendix ? Perl 5 vs. Perl 6 Operators

About the Author

Scott Walters has been programming computers since 1984 (professionally since 1996). He built the corporate intranet at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, and did pretty much everything for two startups. For fun, he runs http://perldesignpatterns.com, does CGI scripting for the NetBSD Project and http://projects.netbsd.org, maintains several CPAN modules, and helps coordinate Perl Mongers meetings for Phoenix Perl Mongers.