(NOTE: Each chapter begins with Objectives, an Outline, and an Introduction and ends with a Summary, Terminology, a summary of all the programming tips in the chapter, Self-Review Exercises, Self-Review Exercise Answers, and Exercises.) 1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and the World Wide Web. 2. Introduction to Programming in Perl. 3. Control Structures: Part I. 4. Arrays and Hashes. 5. Control Structures: Part II. 6. Subroutines and Functions. 7. Introduction to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI). 8. Regular Expressions. 9. String Manipulation. 10. File Processing. 11. File and Directory Manipulation. 12. Formatted Output. 13. References. 14. Objects. 15. Perl Database Interface (DBI). 16. Session Tracking and Cookies. 17. Web Automation and Networking. 18. Process Control. 19. Security. 20. Complex Data Structures. 21. Graphics and Perl/Tk. 22. Perl and XML: A Web-Based Message Forums Application. 23. Accessibility: Developing for the Disabled. 24. Bonus Chapter: Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part I. 25. Bonus Chapter: Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part II. 26. Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Python Programming. Appendix A: HTML Special Characters. Appendix B: HTML Colors. Appendix C: ASCII Character Set. Appendix D: Operator Precedence Charts. Appendix E: Number Systems. Appendix F: Installing Apache Web Server. Appendix G: Installing Perl. Appendix H: Installing Python. Appendix I: Career Resources. Appendix J: Registering an ODBC Data Source.
