Here is a Tk script that may help you. You can play with the rectangle edges by adjusting the outline color, and possibly using premade square images . I won't help you anymore, since it's homework. :-) Read perldoc Tk::Canvas and google for "perl tk chessboard" 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Tk;
# by  Jack D. improving on some code of mine

my ($x, $y);
my $iconSize = 20;
my ($width, $height) = (10, 10);
my ($canvasWidth, $canvasHeight) = 
   ($iconSize+$width*$iconSize,
    $iconSize+$height*$iconSize);

my $w = $canvasWidth+$iconSize;
my $h = $canvasHeight+$iconSize;
my $MW = MainWindow->new;
$MW->geometry($w.'x'.$h);

my $MF = $MW->Frame->pack;
my $c = $MF->Canvas( -width => $canvasWidth,
-height => $canvasHeight )->pack;

for ($y = $iconSize; $y < $canvasHeight; $y+=$iconSize)
{
for ($x = $iconSize; $x < $canvasWidth; $x+=$iconSize)
{
$c->createRectangle ($x, $y,
$x+$iconSize, $y+$iconSize,
-fill => '#AFAFAF',
-activefill => '#CFCFCF',
-tags=>['rect',"row.$y", "col.$x"] );
}
}
$c->bind('rect', '<Enter>', \&enter );
$c->bind("rect", "<Leave>", \&leave );

MainLoop;

sub findtag {
  my ($canv) = @_;
  my $id = $canv->find('withtag', 'current');
  my @tags = $canv->gettags($id);
  my ($row) = ( grep /^row\d*/, @tags );
  my ($col) = ( grep /^col\d*/, @tags );
  return ($row,$col);
}

sub enter {
  my ($canv) = @_;
  my ($r,$c) = findtag($canv);
   $canv->itemconfigure($r, -fill=>$canv->itemcget($r,-activefill));
   $canv->itemconfigure($c, -fill=>$canv->itemcget($c,-activefill));
}

sub leave{
  my ($canv) = @_;
  $canv->itemconfigure('rect', -fill=>'#AFAFAF');
  # note replaced 'all' with 'rect' above - just in case there are oth
+er canvas items :-)
}

__END__

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