Internet & World Wide Web How to Program (1st Edition)

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Summary: Ok Overview
Review: Breadth of information, but very little depth. It is certainly mistitled as "How to Program." Instead, a more appropriate sub-title would be: "A Brief Overview." Authors are not very careful on many occasions at pointing out what technologies are proprietary vs. standard.

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Summary: Good Book
Review: Easy to read and to understand. I garanty that you will be following without any problems.Like their other books, there are helpful 'tips' and 'common programming errors' sections that bring the objective of writing functional well-written programs into sharp focus.

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Summary: Great book for beginners
Review: Everyone complains that this book is too hard for them. Well, I dont know what their problem is but, I understand it just fine and I'm 13 years old in the eighth grade. Not to mention I read the book around going to school. The examples are excellent, and they explain every one extensively. One drawback is that every once in a while they will introduce two new subjects in one example making it harder to comprehend. Though after reading it a few times I was able to reproduce my own examples. I highly reccomend the cyber classroom. It has some extra explaining in audio format once you get alittle tired of reading. Also, something that helped me a lot about the cyber classroom is that on the DHTML section on filters and transitions, every time I tried to use a filter it didnt work. Had I not had the cyberclassroom with their fully executable examples, I would not have realized that the internet explorer I was running did not support filters. The other drawback is on some things, like DHTML event models, they explained only a few and left the rest for us to attempt to use. However I think the book is excellently written and I plan on purchasing the Deitel's Java book.

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Summary: Great book for Teaching!
Review: I am using "Internet and World Wide Web How to Program", in a couple of classes I teach at a local college. It is fine text for teaching or self studying web programming. I strongly recommend it to everyone!

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Summary: Best Deitel book I've read...
Review: I've read the Deitel Java, VB and C++ books prior to this. All of these books were marred by poor color choices (text and background), errors in the code and the fact that you needed a teacher to explain the book to you. This is not the case with this book. It's seems the Old guy and the Young guy have learned a thing or two about what students require in a learning guide. This book is for Internet Explorer ONLY. No examples of cross browser code is here. This book alone will NOT make you a web developer but what it will do is start you down that path. I do have some complaints though. This book, like the others, is designed for the classroom. That being said you will get the most from it in a classroom setting with a competant teacher. My recommendation to the Guys is to have a public book available that has the answers to the questions in an appendix along with the complete chapter ending projects on a CD. Keep a separate edition for the classroom use.

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Summary: An Inspiring Work Filled With Invaluable Information
Review: Internet And World Wide Web Programming is the Second of Books i've bought in the "How to Program" series. This book starts from the very bottom and slowly works its way up to provide the reader with a coverage of every major topic pertaining to the internet. The examples throughout the book clarify the information and give the reader ideas for their own programs. The only downside to this work is that in some of the later more detailed chapters the authors fail to provide an accurate description of some of the fundamentals. Particularly in cgi, xml, asp, and some others. Overall though this Work surpassed my expectations right from the very start. They cover EVERYTHING! I've read many (or tried) Computer Science/Programming/IT books and in most of them all the authors do the same thing: They assume the reader knows too much. And to be a good book one must start very basic, no matter who the audience. If you loose the reader at the beginning, you'll never get them back. Perhaps that is why these authors are so successfull, because they always start basic and clarify their information with examples.

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Summary: Good reference book for Web Developers
Review: My introduction to this book was as a Information Technology Student at DeVry Institute of Technology in Dallas, Texas. Seeing that there is so much information simply to learn about web development (e.g., ASP, HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript), I found this book an excellent resource for both the novice as well as the experienced developer. I feel this book provides a "no nosense approach" to programming. It focuses on many of the important aspects of coding in several languages, and provides a very detailed instruction to many complicated areas of web development. I think this book could have provided a lot more examples, which are found in the complete CD/Book series package. However, for the most part, this book is well worth its asking price. And after reading many books on web development, this book provides a general overview of many areas which are crucial for those interested in web page construction.

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Summary: ***WARNING*** Not for the visual learner!
Review: Not for people who learn VISUALLY, that much is clear. I love the Web, I designed my first site in 1995. I sell Internet advertising and also have a freelance Web design business, so I wanted to sharpen my skills. Whoo. This book is great...if you are looking for a sleep aid! YAWN... I have very strong computer skills, and have taught myself some difficult stuff (including HTML from just reading other people's code). I took a class where this book was given out, and it was the most boring, dry, difficult to wade through text I've ever experienced. I can honestly say I got NOTHING from this text. It may be their approach, writing style, who knows? But if you can read and retain information presented abstractly, give this book a try. But if you need to get your hand on the mouse and drive, with a textbook at hand--do yourself a favor and get a Visual Quickstart Guide (Peachpit Press). You'll be grateful you did!

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Summary: a jack of all trades and a master of none
Review: Ok, I admit I am not a beginner in web programming. However, what atracted me to the book, other than the fabulous reviews here, was that so many different topics or 'technologies' were covered. For a total beginner, I think the book may actually be worth 5 stars. If you know a little about this and that, and have even a basic idea of programming in general, then with a few exceptions on some subjects targeting Javascript and DHTML, the book was not too informative. If you want to master these new web technologies, I would advice getting books that are specific to each category and focus on them. If you just dont have the time, or want a quick start, this book will take you, or, I should say, start you on the journey, but it will not take you to its final destination. Which is of course to master the topics covered. Now, there is a very serious bug in the CD ROM software which the publishers/authors call a multimedia cyber classroom and which is nothing but a web site on CD that causes the links to the code figures to always default to the first one. So fig. 8.3 which is chapter 8, code 3, will always show the first code for each chapter. In order to access them, you have to click on the code link on the left frame... That should not have happened. It is a programming mistake in a book about programming.

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Summary: Gives you the content of 5 books in one
Review: Okay, so you want to learn web development; Meaning: HTML 4 ,dynamic interaction with scripting languages,e-commerce shopping cart,SQL with databases,personal web server,along with the hot XML. (All with a good CD) Good, you came to the right place. Because the authors are not only professionals, this gang are real teachers. And this is not their first crack at a book. They have written many books and display each one in an easy to follow format building each chapter and section on the next one.The content gives you a very good background knowledge with many helpful hints and errors to avoid. What does this mean, it means you will probably learn more in this book than you did in your last 5 class room courses combined. I know you will be impressed as much as I was . I usually do not give a book a 5 star rating; but this one is the best in its class by far. Yes, it leaves you without webmaster ability, but lets get real: that's what only experience will get for you. If you want to learn as much as possible with some of the best writings on web programming, this one source is what you are looking for. If you are not as impressed as I was feel free to give me your feedback at: [e-mail] .