We cover a number of languages and other topics in this course, usually not in enough detail for you to start programming right away. This page collects some useful summaries and tutorials to help you get going. Google provides lots more. Quality varies; if you find better ones to augment or replace these, please let me know.

AWK: vectorsite; the GAWK book

Perl: Perl home page; Picking up Perl; regular expressions; regular expressions; CGI programming in Perl

Python: Guido von Rossum's tutorial; regular expressions

Javascript: Netscape's official page; functionx.com

PHP: by Martin Geisler

C++: Doug Schmidt; cplusplus.com; functionx.com; STL by Jak Kirman

Java: Sun's Java documentation; Java Tutorial: A Short Course... by Campione and Walrath, who also wrote JFC Swing Tutorial

Visual Basic: three tutorials, out of many: free-ed.net, vbtutor.net, vbinformation.com

Tcl/Tk: one of several; an index of tutorials

Databases: MySQL; Microsoft Access from functionx

XML: w3schools.com; XML & Java from Sun;