Newbie wanting a good starting point

[pat <pat msasa co zw>]

If this is posted to the wrong list please accept my apologies.
I have a full install of Red Hat 8 and have read through the help files
there on using Kdevelopment and Glade. I have also downloaded a tutorial
'Gtk-Perl Tutorial' by Stephen Wilhelm written July 05, 2001. I am
reading though it at present. I have written some small programs in perl
and now would like to try and take them one step further into the
graphical world.

Can someone please point me to any other tutorials that might be a
better starting point as it appears to me there is a wide development
gap between what I have installed and the tutorial that I have
downloaded.

Pat Hannon