CGI Programming with Visual Basic 5

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Summary: confused even more
Review: "Deliver CGI applications easily" says the cover of this book. After spending a whole weekend with the book, I could not get past chapter 2. Every example I tried generated confusing error messages. I'm actually using VB 6 instead of 5, and nothing in this 500+ page book suggests whether or not this is allowed. A quick look at the index tells you it is too short for a 500 page book. One of the most popular CGI applications is a counter, however, the word counter does not even appear in the index. Only 2 entries are under the letter "B" in the index. That's what I'd expect from a 20 page book. This book is written in a language that only someone who already knows the subject matter could possibly understand.

Rating:
Summary: confused even more
Review: "Deliver CGI applications easily" says the cover of this book. After spending a whole weekend with the book, I could not get past chapter 2. Every example I tried generated confusing error messages. I'm actually using VB 6 instead of 5, and nothing in this 500+ page book suggests whether or not this is allowed. A quick look at the index tells you it is too short for a 500 page book. One of the most popular CGI applications is a counter, however, the word counter does not even appear in the index. Only 2 entries are under the letter "B" in the index. That's what I'd expect from a 20 page book. This book is written in a language that only someone who already knows the subject matter could possibly understand.

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Summary: Waste !!!
Review: CGI Programming with Visual Basic 5 is an extensive book that teaches step by step how to create robust applications for the Internet. It contains information on creating search engines, counters, shopping bags, the use of cookies and parameters, and information on debugging and using client side scripting inside your applications. I have really enjoyed this book and personally recommend it to any developer that is interested in developing robust applications for the Internet.

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Summary: Are you kidding me?
Review: Visual Basic is absolutely the wrong language to write CGI applications. The overhead required will drag your server down to a crawl.

That said, the book itself is fairly well written with lots of useful information. If you are a CGI programmer in general (C, Delphi or PowerBASIC) then there is some really useful information here. Particularly if you are a PowerBASIC programmer, since PowerBASIC can compile stand-alone executables to just a few 'k-bytes'.

Rating:
Summary: Are you kidding me?
Review: Visual Basic is absolutely the wrong language to write CGI applications. The overhead required will drag your server down to a crawl.

That said, the book itself is fairly well written with lots of useful information. If you are a CGI programmer in general (C, Delphi or PowerBASIC) then there is some really useful information here. Particularly if you are a PowerBASIC programmer, since PowerBASIC can compile stand-alone executables to just a few 'k-bytes'.

Rating:
Summary: Waste !!!
Review: Well, in polite terms, somewhat useful but more useless than useful in any way. To be laconic " regretful buy "