CGI, Perl, JAVA, JavaScript, script archive links, etc.

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="000080" LINK="0000ff" vlink="#00ff00" alink="#FF6EC7">  <blockquote> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#E0FFFF" valign="top"><a NAME="cgi"><big><b>CGI:</b></big> </a><small>"CGI is not a language. It's a simple protocol that can be used to communicate between Web forms and your program. A CGI script can be written in any language that can read STDIN, write to STDOUT, and read environment variables, i.e. virtually any programming language, including C, Perl, or even shell scripting."</small> </td> </tr> </table> <p><b><a HREF="http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/cgi/">CGI Made Really Easy</a> </b>- "<b>So it's 4:00</b>, your boss needs a CGI script written by 4:30, and you don't even know what CGI stands for. You've come to the right place. [Note:] <i>If you're not a programmer, this primer won't help you much-- sorry. Learn some programming, even shell scripting, and come back when you're done. Good luck!"</i><br> <a HREF="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/"><b>Common Gateway Interface</b></a> - excellent resource. Docuementation, an archive of scripts, more. </p> <p><b><big><a NAME="java">Java: </a></big></b>Java is two things: a programming language and a platform. For more complete information go to:<small> </small><strong><a HREF="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/intro/definition.html">What is Java?</a> </strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.developer.com/directories/pages/dir.java.html"><b>Gamelan: the Java Directory</b></a> - the official site for Java<br> <b><a HREF="http://www.javasoft.com:80/nav/read/Tutorial/">The Java Tutorial</a> </b>- a practical guide for programmers, download the tutorial here.<br> <b><a HREF="http://www.irdu.nus.sg:80/java/javatutorial.html">IRDU Java Tutorial</a> </b>- similar to the above information, but contains links to other resources.<a HREF="http://www.spaceworks.com:80/~mhickey/resourc.html"><br> <b>Java Resource Page</b></a> - This old (but still working) page contains links to Java URL's, Newsgroups, Mailing Lists, Sites Listing Java Books And Newsletters, Events, Java Newletters </p> <p><b>Software: </b><br> <b><a HREF="http://www.coffeecup.com/">CoffeeCup Software</a> </b>- download and order site </p> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#E0FFFF" valign="top"><big><a NAME="cgi"></a><a NAME="script">JavaScript:</a> </big><small>"JavaScript is a proven scripting language, which is supported by most browsers. When used within a web page, it gives the Web Author the ability to add client-side pre-programmed interactive functions to your web pages. JavaScript greatly extends the capabilities of HTML."</small></td> </tr> </table> <p><strong><a href="http://jsguide.simplenet.com/">A Beginner's Guide to JavaScript</a></strong> by Rajesh Vijayakumar<br> <a HREF="http://www.cs.newcastle.edu.au:80/Staff/bohdan/jscript/tutorial.html"><b>A Very Basic Javascript Tutorial</b></a><br> <b><a HREF="http://www.webreference.com/js/">Doc JavaScript</a> </b>- a tremendously useful resource. "Doc JavaScript is a biweekly column on JavaScript, a programming language for web page's object manipulation." <br> <a HREF="http://www.infodial.net/support/javascript/index.htm"><b>InfoDial </b></a> - a primer, with scripting examples<br> <strong><a HREF="http://rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de/~skoch/js/index.htm">JavaScript Intro by VooDoo </a></strong>- easy to understand tutorial<br> <strong><a href="http://www.webteacher.com/javatour/">JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer</a></strong> - another very useful place to start<br> <b><a HREF="http://www.webreference.com/javascript/tip_week_past.html">Javascript Tips</a> </b>-<font FACE="Times" SIZE="3"> The JavaScript Tip of the Week archive is a collection of 30 coding tips with complete source code, working examples, and commentary. <br> </font><a HREF="http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/handbook/javascript/index.html"><b>Netscape Javascript Guide</b></a> </p> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#E0fffF" valign="top"><b><big><a NAME="perl">Perl: </a></big></b><small>Perl's author, Larry Wall, describes Perl this way:<br> "Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal)." - from the <u>Perl Language Home Page</u>.</small> </td> </tr> </table> <p><a HREF="http://www.perl.com/perl/"><b>Perl Language Home Page</b></a> - from OReilly, the book publisher. A wealth of info here. </p> <p><b><a HREF="http://www.perl.com/perl/all_about/regexps.html">Perl 5 Regular Expression Description</a> </b>- from the  Perl newsgroup. </p> <p><b><big><a NAME="tips">Tips,</a> tricks, download sites</big></b> </p> <p><a HREF="http://www.bignosebird.com/"><b>BigNoseBird </b></a>- "Looking to improve your webmastery skills and perk up your site? Stop looking and start learning! BNB features over 190 pages of easy to read original tutorials on almost every subject you might find of interest. We have free scripts, free graphics, free midi files and much, much more." </p> <p><b><a HREF="http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/">Internet Tips Index</a> </b>- not easy to classify, but there are some really useful tips here. </p> <p><a href="http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/"><b>Matt's Script Archive</b></a> (check it out!) </p> <p><a HREF="http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Scripting/"><b>Programming and Scripting</b></a> - another very useful source for Perl, Java, and JavaScript information </p> <p><b><a HREF="http://scriptsearch.internet.com/">Script Search</a></b> - "the world's largest script library" (well anyway, over 5,000 scripts here) </p> <p>  </p> <div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="MIDDLE" bgcolor="navy"><font color="FFFFFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">  </font><a href="http://libweb.uncc.edu/reference" STYLE="color:white"><font color="FFFFFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">WebWrite: HTML </font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="FFFFFF">+</font></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">  <font COLOR="FFCC00">·</font><font color="FFFFFF"> </font></font><font color="FFFFFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://libweb.uncc.edu/ref-arts" STYLE="color:white">Humanities Home</a></font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font COLOR="FFCC00">·</font></font><font color="FFFFFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <a HREF="http://libweb.uncc.edu/" STYLE="color:white">Library Home</a></font><font COLOR="FFCC00" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> ·</font><font SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" COLOR="FFFFFF"> <a HREF="http://www.uncc.edu/lis" STYLE="color:white">LIS Home</a></font><font SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">   <font COLOR="FFCC00">·</font> </font><font SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" COLOR="FFFFFF"><a HREF="http://www.uncc.edu">UNC Charlotte </a></font></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p>Last update May 2, 1999.<br>  </p> </blockquote> </body>