Posted: January 5th, 2012, 8:30am MST
Every programming language has a number of things in common. The fundamental concepts of programming are going to be the same, no matter what language in which you do them. In this chapter, we'll investigate the things you need to know before you start writing any programs at all. For instance: What is programming anyway? What does it mean to program? How do we structure programs, and make them easy to understand? How do computers see numbers and letters? How do we find and eliminate errors in our programs? Of course, we'll be looking at these from a Perl perspective, and we'll...