The first version of this tutorial, influenced by an old Pike tutorial by Fredrik Hübinette, was completed by Thomas Padron-McCarthy on February 29, 2000. Maintenance since then has been in the hands of the pike development team, and we would hope that you too would want to participate, helping out and contributing updates, pointing out what could be improved upon, and how. Join us! Introduction What is Pike? What Does Pike Look Like? Pike and Some Other Languages Reading this Tutorial First Steps Hello World I Want My Greeting in a Window! Interactive Pike Fundamental Concepts Terminology / Glossary Your Second Pike Program The Bare Bones Running the Program Command-line Arguments and if Methods and Loops Magic Web Stuff Syntactic Sugar Showing the Page Some Notes About WWW An Introduction to Data Types What is a data type? Basic Types Container Types Object, Program and Function Variable Definitions Basic Types and Reference Types Methods An Introduction Calling a method More Advanced Examples Object-Oriented Programming Object Orientation in General Object Orientation in Pike Creating and Using Objects How to Create a Class Classes as Record Types Programs are Classes and Vice Versa Inheritance Multiple Inheritance Access control Statements Choosing between Alternatives Repetition (or "Loops") Other Statement Types More About Data Types The Basic Types Container Types The Other Reference Types Working with Strings Operators on Strings Built-in Functions for Strings Composing Strings with sprintf Analyzing Strings with sscanf Wide Strings Expressions Some Terminology Arithmetical Operations Operations on Complex Types Comparison Logical Expressions Bitwise Operations Operations on Sets Indexing Assignment Type Conversions The Comma Operator Call and Splice Operator Precedence and Associativity The Preprocessor Preprocessor Directives Modules Some Examples of Modules How Do You Use a Module? How Do You Create a Module? How Does Pike Find the Modules? Errors and Error Handling Error Messages from Pike Error Handling: the Concept Detecting an Error Handling the Error Error Codes catch and throw Not Covered Here