This guide was developed to help novices understand key ideas in Perl that will allow them to write Object Oriented programs in Perl. Even if you just need to know about packages, references and variable scoping, the discussions in this guide will be usesful to you.

You want to learn more about Perl packages, namespaces, variable scoping in Perl, references, perl pre-processing and post-processing, importing symbols, autoloading, autosplitting packages, Object Oriented programming implementation in Perl, Objects, defining inheritance using the @ISA array, the UNIVERSAL class. You will also find discussions on packaging your Perl packages in this guide.