Perl 6 Resources
The Perl 6 community provides a wide range of resources in different formats. You will find tutorials, screencasts, code samples and exercises that will help you throughout your Perl 6 journey.
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For Newcomers
- Perl 6 Introduction
- Learn Perl 6 in Y minutes
- Perl 6 tutorials
- SixFix a weekly dose of Perl 6 delivered by email
Code Examples
- Rosetta Code, programming problems solved in Perl 6 side-by-side with hundreds of other languages
- Perl 6 Examples, lots of example programs written in Perl 6
Screencasts
- szabgab.com Perl 6 screencasts
- YouTube Perl 6 videos English
- YouTube Perl 6 videos Non-English
Blogs
- Perl 6 Blog Aggregator
- Perl 6 Weekly Weekly changes in and around Perl 6
- Perl 6 Advent Calendar
- Rakudo.Party
Miscellaneous Sources
- Presentations by Jonathan Worthington
- Perl 6 Maven Tutorial, training course and newsletter
- Periodic table of Perl 6 operators
- Perl 6 Cheat Sheet
Perl 6 from Other Languages
- Haskell: Perl 6 from Haskell
- Perl 5:
- Python: Perl 6 from Python
- Ruby: Perl 6 from Ruby
Books published or in work
See a helpful chart of Perl 6 Books or pick from the list below.
- Perl 6 at a Glance, by Andrew Shitov (published, print)
- Think Perl 6: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, by Laurent Rosenfeld (published, print)
- Perl 6 Fundamentals, by Moritz Lenz (published, print and ebook)
- Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars, by Moritz Lenz (published, print and ebook
- Learning Perl 6, by Brian D. Foy (in work)
- Metagenomics, by Ken Youens-Clark (published, ebook)
- Learning to program with Perl 6: First Steps, by JJ Merelo (published, ebook)
- Migrating to Perl 6, by Andrew Shitov (in work)
- Web Application Development in Perl 6, by Gabor Szabo (in work)
- Perl 6 Deep Dive, by Andrew Shitov (published, print and ebook)
Social Media
- Reddit: Subscribe to r/perl6
- Facebook: Join our Group
- Twitter: Follow @perl6org
- StackOverflow: Perl 6 Questions