Resources

Books

• Programming perl from O'Reilly Press. This is the reference I use. It's invaluable.
• Learning Perl - This provides more examples and description than the Programming perl book, but I'd recommend getting both to have a more thorough reference.

Websites For Everyone

• CPAN - the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, which has tons of perl modules to help you do exciting things.
• Perl.org - documentation, tutorials, books, code, etc. A great resource.

Software For Windows

• Open Perl IDE - a free program that lets you edit and test your programs all in one window.
• ActivePerl - you need a perl interpreter to run any perl code. This is one option.
• Strawberry Perl - another perl interpreter
• WinSCP - secure ftp program
• Make for Windows - A tool you need to install perl modules from CPAN.

• TextWrangler - a free text editing program you can use to write perl scripts. It color codes your code and everything.
• Fugu - secure ftp for mac