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Summary: Great Book
Review: Easy to follow examples. Great for a beginner to learn CGI. Learn the language by the end of the book.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Great book - I am a beginner and was able to learn with relative ease. I knew Mr. Hanegan in high school and it is no surprise to me that he was capable of writing such a fine manual.
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Summary: Awesome book!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Great book - I am a beginner and was able to learn with relative ease. I knew Mr. Hanegan in high school and it is no surprise to me that he was capable of writing such a fine manual.
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Summary: Best CGI Book
Review: I am a beginner and this book was very helpful. Author did a fantastic job.
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Summary: Bad Code
Review: I don't know if the author of this book was using a different type of perl or what, but I have had to troubleshoot a lot of his code. I have read only three chapters so far, and I've had to get people to help me figure out what was wrong with the code the author has written on three different code examples. I do think this is a good book, though. From one point of view, this is a great learning process. You get to know the code pretty dang well when you have to study it sometimes as long as an hour before you figure out what was wrong with it.
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Summary: Code examples
Review: I have read through the book and have found it to be very useful as a resource and a teaching tool for beginning CGI scripters. I also went to the online Web site to find all the specific updated code. One note that I know understand is that the code will not work as is because CGI is very dependent to the Web server running it. All the code will have to be modified to be specific to the Web server. I was having problems with the code, but now I realize that the code is only a template to help you learn, but I must figure out some of my Web server-specific configuration variables in order to get the code working. Anyways, I think this book is a good teaching resource to CGI scripters who want to learn how to add interactivity to their Web Site. I have implemented the book's flat file database script so that it now work's on my Web Site!
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Summary: Good Resource
Review: I have tried other CGI/Perl books in the past, and they have either been too easy or too complicated. This books takes a good approach talking about Building Blocks and taught me the process of writing web applications. This process has saved me some time. Some of the code appears incorrect in one or two places, but overall I have learned alot from this.
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Summary: Good Resource
Review: I have tried other CGI/Perl books in the past, and they have either been too easy or too complicated. This books takes a good approach talking about Building Blocks and taught me the process of writing web applications. This process has saved me some time. Some of the code appears incorrect in one or two places, but overall I have learned alot from this.
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Summary: Who uses CGI anymore?
Review: I was disappointed with this book. It was a little hard to follow and after this book wonder why people use CGI anymore.
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Summary: Poorly Produced
Review: I was hoping that this would be a useful book in helping me to write Perl CGI, but I was not impressed at all. There are numerous errors in the example code that is given - which is frustrating to say the least, but I always got the impression that I was being rushed through everything at super-fast speed without really having anything explained properly. The book "looks" nice, and flicking through it quickly one could be forgiven for thinking that it was a reasonable publication, but once one starts to study it then it's easy to see that there are probably far better books. This book might be ok if you just wanted to find out what writing CGI with Perl was all about, but to actually try using it for that purpose would be very testing.My favorite Perl books are the O'Reilly ones, which I'd have no trouble in recommending to anyone.
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