introduction to Perl 5 for web developers Table of Contents

• Title Page
• What is Perl 5
• References
• Creating References
• Dereferencing a Reference
• Anonymous References
• Variable Localization
• Introduction to Object Oriented Design Principles
• Procedural-based Programming
• Limitations of Procedural-Oriented Programming
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Objects
• Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Object Oriented Design in Perl
• Defining a Class
• Instantiating an Object
• Using Methods
• Inheriting from a Class
• Modules
• Using Modules
• Miscellaneous Constructs
• Using "qw"
• Using "=>"