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.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.