Contents

• Creating and running a perl program
• Data Structures
  • Scalars
  • Arrays
    • In HTML you use the <ol> tag.
  • Hashes
    • In HTML you use the <dl> tag.
  
  
• Boolean Expressions (True and False)
  • Comparison
  • What is Truth?
    • The number 0 is false. All other numbers are true.
    • The string '0' is false.
    • The empty string, ' ' , is false.
    • The special value undef is false.
  • Boolean Algebra
  
  
• Control Structures
  • If
  • Foreach
  • While
  
  
• I/O
  • Terminal input
  • Example - Erase a letter
  • File input
  • Excercise
  • Review
    • Vocabulary
  
  
• Binary Search
• Hangman
  • ASCII Art
    • Excercise
    • Excercise
    • Review
  • Flowchart
    • Excercise
  • Putting the pieces together
  • Pick a word
  • Initialize Global Variables
  • Run subroutines
  • Keep track of correct guesses
  • Erase Guess
  • Add a Body Part?
  • Fill in the spaces
  
  
• Appendix
  • Colophon
  • Operating System Considerations
  
  
• Index
• About this document ...

©2002, Tom Hunt