Here are some accessible tutorials for those who are just starting out:
- Perl Babysteps 1: Your First Simple Script
- Perl documentation documentation
- Searching Perl Documentation
- The basics
- Common Beginner Mistakes
- Introductory Perl Tutorial Course for Windows (off-site)
- Robert Pepper's Perl Tutorial - primarily for Windows (off-site)
- Data Types and Variables
- Context in Perl
- Operators
- Flow Control Structures
- Special Variables, Options, and Pragmas
- Perl Installation
- Documenting Code