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Title: New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML and XML by Patrick Carey, Mary Kemper ISBN: 0-619-10115-6 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)
Rating: 2
Summary: Bug Infested, Verbose, Pretty Pictures.
Comment: Very high quality paper, printing, photos, and binding. But in my opinion...
The content is low quality. If you have to read this book for a class, you have my sympathies. If you do not absolutely have to read Carey's book, find another HTML book.
XHTML claim: The cover says "Includes XHTML coverage throughout". I found precious little to support that. I did find XHTML code violations all over the book and code files.
Next the errors: I downloaded the student files on 4/27/04. Every code file which I tested with XHTML code validation (strict, transitional, and frameset) failed miserably. There are case (upper/lower) violations. There are mostly tag closing (xhtml) errors throughout. There are unbalanced tags like in figure 5-19 on page 5-20. There are missing quotes like in figure 5-29 on page 5-27. There are instructional (bold) typos like item 3 on page 5-33. There is the demo on the author's web site which does not work (as of this date) on page 6-46. There is the JavaScript if/else error repeated five (5) times on pages 8-31 and 8-32 before getting it right at the bottom of 8-32. There are others.
Verbose: Carey uses too many words, stories, and pages to convey a limited amount of HTML. Maybe he should switch dime store novels so that he can entertain people who want that.
Off Purpose: Cary spent 2 out of 10 chapters on JavaScript when he should have used the ink to finish the job of covering HTML and CSS. JavaScript is too big of a job to cover in 2 chapters and he did not finish either HTML or CSS first. This makes for a disjointed and incomplete book.
Publisher errors: What was the publisher doing to pass this many problems? This confirms something I read from another reviewer regarding Course Technologies. I doubt quality is very important at Course Technologies / Thompson Learning. These guys are off my "buy list".
The book does have some good information and value, but there are too many problems which get into the way. I wish I had not purchased this very expensive book, or had not marked in it, so that it could be returned.
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Title: Oracle9i: SQL (with an Introduction to PL/SQL) by Lannes Morris-Murphy ISBN: 0619064757 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $56.95 |
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Title: A Guide to Oracle9i by Joline Morrison, Mike Morrison ISBN: 0619159596 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 02 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.95 |
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Title: Systems Analysis and Design (5th Edition) by Kenneth E. Kendall, Julie E. Kendall ISBN: 0130415715 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 08 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $130.00 |
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Title: Visual Basic.NET How to Program, Second Edition by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, Tem R. Nieto ISBN: 0130293636 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 11 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $88.00 |
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Title: Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Fifth Edition by Peter Rob, Carlos Coronel ISBN: 061906269X Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 18 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $92.95 |
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