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Title: Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Second Edition by Elizabeth Castro ISBN: 0-201-73568-7 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 29 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (17 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A good beginner book but you will need to know HTML
Comment: I bought this book to put CGI on my own website, not the author's. When you send your data on the examples in this book they go to the authors CGI pages at a web site (www.cookbook.com)
The purpose of me trying to learn CGI was to make CGI scripts to have my own web page have my own Guestbook,ect,ect..
But this book does help in learning perl. The author does not present how to create CGI scripts to recieve the data you send from a form instead you send the data from a form to a web site that has a server. Oh well but I will read the whole book. Despite this setback it is a fair book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Awsome for newbies
Comment: Firstly you should have some programming background to get the most out of this book - Unix platform being the most helpful. This book leaves no guesswork for the reader and provides everything you need to know in using CGI today! The best part of Elizabeth's books is that she provides a website for Q&A, updates, and revisions as supplemental material. She is truely one of the few authors who takes care and effort in trying to maximize a reader's understanding of the material. Yes this is a newbie book, nothing is glossed over or left to the imagination. I'm actually a fan of the 1st edition of this book and would recommend it instead. However, the 2nd edition is the result of suggestions and input from readers of the 1st edition as well as providing information on how to set up a desktop web-server to test your scripts. If your test platform is Linux then everything you'll need comes standard. If it's Windows then you'll have some choices to make and install (don't worry it's all free). If using Mac OS10.x then your test platform is ready to go with little effort!
Rating: 4
Summary: Great place to start and a decent reference besides
Comment: Castro has written several books in the Visual Quick Start series including her best-selling HTML book and more recently her book on XML. I've been using the HTML and Perl/CGI books since 2001 on various projects and have found them extremely useful. I have a few other books in the VQS series and I can tell you that they are not all created equal. Castro, however, is pretty thorough which is why this book is not only a good starting place, but a usable reference as well.
Some topics covered include getting familiar with Perl syntax and functions, installing Perl, communicating with Web servers, creating HTML pages and forms, serving up data, and dealing with security. If you know any programming language, you can begin to pick up Perl very quickly from her examples. In fact I used this book to tackle my first Perl script and had it working fairly quickly. She assumes some knowledge of HTML and the basics of Web servers and browsers.
Advanced topics such as using databases to store or retrieve data on Web pages is not covered in this fairly small book, but that is a topic worthy of a separate book anyway. Other issues such as dealing with specific Web servers are also best left to other books. For the price and ease of use, I highly recommend Castro's book. You'll be seeing the results of your first CGI script in no time at all.
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Title: JavaScript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (4th Edition) by Tom Negrino, Dori Smith ISBN: 0201735172 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 26 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition by Elizabeth Castro ISBN: 0321130073 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: PHP for the World Wide Web Visual Quickstart Guide by Larry Ullman ISBN: 0201727870 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 29 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: XML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide by Elizabeth Castro ISBN: 0201710986 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) by Jason Cranford Teague ISBN: 0201730847 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 24 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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