perl Programming

http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/perl

Objective

A one-quarter project seminar to learn the programming languages perl and Java. Course CS4920-5 (3-0). Further details are in the class syllabus.

perl References

Wall, Larry and Schwartz, Randal L., Programming perl, O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol California, 1992.
Perl 5 Reference Guide booklet including cover pages, booklet layout and README files, and a perl problems list.
perl Tutorial by Nik Silver, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, UK. Another version is here.
perl Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
University of Florida perl Archive. Lots of stuff including On Being a perl Programmer.
FAQ page for perl documentation, distribution, and platforms.
perl 4 Manual with search engine.
Safe scripting: skip down to find perl in the World Wide Web Security FAQ.

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) References

Brenner, Steven E. and Aoki, Edwin, Introduction to CGI/PERL: Getting Started with Web Scripts, M&T Books, New York, 1996.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Tutorial, also by Nik Silver.
A CGI Programmer's Reference and CGI Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
Safe CGI: skip down to find CGI in the World Wide Web Security FAQ.

Other References

Unix introduction and Unix shell scripts by John Locke, NPS Computer Science Department.
Entering the World-Wide Web (WWW): A Guide to Cyberspace by Kevin Hughes of Enterprise Integration Technologies describing everything you need to get started using Mosaic, World Wide Web information sources, hypermedia and the Internet.
December, John and Randall, Neil, The World Wide Web Unleashed, second edition, Sams.net Publishing, Indianapolis Indiana, 1995. A related link is Internet Web Text.
A Beginner's Guide to HTML, A Beginner's Guide to Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and Fill-Out Forms by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Composing Good HTML style guide by James "Eric" Tilton, Carnegie-Mellon University.

Class Projects

Class e-mail address (perljava@stl.nps.navy.mil) and e-mail address listing.
Nadir Altmisdort: http://dubhe.cc.nps.navy.mil/~fnaltmis/perl/tree or altay_tree.pl provides a text-based tree listing of of directories, subdirectories and files. Example output at http://dubhe.cc.nps.navy.mil/~fnaltmis/perl/tree.out or altay_tree.out
Don Brutzman: my projects were the NPS Center for AUV Research Network Monitoring Page and the NPS AUV Process Launcher
Altay Camliguney: two scripts for running remote processes, http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/perl/runcc and http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/perl/rps, both of which use the very useful shell script rxterm. Plus his thesis project for process monitoring source and script.
Jim Cummiskey: http://www.mbay.net/~jccummis/mortgage.htm computes mortgage interest of the form
mortgage [Principal] [Annual Interest Rate] [Number of Months of Loan]
Andrew Dean: file_process.cgi is an introductory file operations in preparation for an online database management thesis.
Evan Edwards: pinging remote hosts for network monitoring. CGI script PingNPS.pl with local results at http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~iirg/atm/monitoring/Ping_pages/Baynet_ping.html and remote results at http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~edwardse/.
Ridvan Erdogan multicast monitoring pages at http://blackand.stl.nps.navy.mil/~erdogan/mbone and http://blackand.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/perl/postman.pl
Carl Forsythe: retrieving examples from the Camel Book. http://www.oc.nps.navy.mil/~forsythe/cgi-bin/dir_lister.cgi
Jack Kapp: checkmail deletes those pesky messages from 'root' when you log in. Also a DIS Protocol Support Utility.
James King: http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/perl/Form-mail.pl form mail script from Reuven M. Lerner.
Didier LeGoff: makeHTML generates hypertext using keywords. The script is at http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/perl/makeHTML with an example input at makeHTML.example and results at makeHTML.example.html
Didier LeGoff: NPSNET launcher: http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~dalegoff/npsnet.cgi
Tufan Oruk: generating hypertext listing of any directory. The script is at http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/perl/ls2html.pl with results for the class directory and the perl /eg directory.
Tufan Oruk: http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/perl/mbox2html.pl blindly converts mailbox(es) to HTML files. One index and one htmlized mbox file is created with names _ndx.html and .html HTMLized mbox is http address aware.
Frank Palazzo: netdiskuse
Murat Tamer: his script at http://dubhe.cc.nps.navy.mil/~mttamer/muntar.pl automates various combinations of uncompress/extract all .tar, .Z, and .tar.Z files. He also has a finger script at http://dubhe.cc.nps.navy.mil/~mttamer/Perl/finger.pl

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(3 November 97) (official disclaimer)