Perl Info and Resources,
Introduction to Programming for Linguists
Updates
- Another useful perl guide suggested by April West. This just goes to show you that once you put something up on the Web, it lives forever. This page had not been edited since July 2001, and I have long since stopped teaching my Programming for Linguists course. In January 2011 (!) April wrote me to tell me that the "Robert's perl tutorial" link was dead, and suggested this page might also be interesting. Thanks, April! Everyone should be aware that some resources on this page are at least 10 years old and there might be better stuff out there now. Still, I hope whatever you're finding here is useful.
- Ok, another update, July 2012. (Amazing how this page lives on!) Ryleigh Heath, a volunteer librarian with Valley Book Club in Pennsylvania, wrote to let me know this page had been useful to student interns as they revamp their Web site. In return, they suggested adding another resource they have found useful, a page with many good intro programming language links called The Many Languages of IT Programming. Thanks, Ryleigh, and let me know how that revamping goes.
- Well, there seems to be a trend here. January 2014: Christina Nill at After School Care Programs, a tutoring and mentoring organization in Colorado, writes that the kids from her Computer Club found this page really useful in getting up to speed. They wanted to suggest this "HTML for Beginners" page as another site that might be useful to beginners, and even though in theory the page you're looking at is about perl, I agree, so I've added the link!
- And another... Turns out that Tom Conor, a retired IT Director, has been using this page for a seminar he teaches at his local library. In addition to some kind words (thanks!) he suggested adding this page with instructional links for many common programming languages, which people in his group had actually pointed out to him. (Great work, library folks, and keep it up!)
- Sheesh. If you read the first update bullet above, I exclaimed about how amazing it is that people were still finding this page, and, even more amazing, finding it useful. Well, that was ten years ago and here I am, boggled yet again. As I write this, it's November 2020, and Sarah Jackson just wrote to let me know that in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, her daughter Jenna is a Girl Scout and she's currently working on her Coding Basics Badge as part of the STEM series for her troop. Jenna's found a useful timeline of programming languages that I'm linking here to show where perl fits in. I'll be thinking Jenna and her troop the next time I manage to get my hands on some Thin Mints!
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