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Summary: Excellent
Review: A very good book, I must say. Although i wasn't very good at understanding the language, this book is very specific and includes a wide explanation on every line written in a script it contains. What I liked most, was that the book included ready made scripts, which are used just like "cut n' paste", but still, every line was explained thoroughly!
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Summary: Excellent Perl for Web book
Review: An excellent example of real world Perl. I highly recommend this book to any IT professional who is interested in implementing Perl with their web servers. I've been working with Perl in system administration for many years. Despite some of the dogma of "experienced webmasters" who may review this book with a critical eye, it meets the expecations of it's target audience. Those people who want to get the system up, the web site generating revenues, and move on to the next project.A must read.
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Summary: I Used This Book to Teach Myself PERL/CGI For The WEB
Review: Excellent book for learning web-based PERL applications. The examples were concisely and fairly well explained. The appendix does a good job of elaborating in more detail. You probably will not like this book if you do not have a programming background. Also, you'll need a good PERL reference book as a companion. The book does not come with a CD ROM, so you'll have to type out the examples.
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Summary: Definately not for the new, middle OR advanced
Review: I do not usually do reviews but after reading this book I just to make others aware. I am honestly at a loss as to what happended... Writing a book is HARD, so while my words may sound harsh, I do appreciate the problems faced and just maybe the publisher has some responsibility here too. This book dives in too fast for beginners without explaining little, but very important bits that would aid greatly in achieving a solid groundwork. However, what's just as frustrating is that it does not go into ANY detail for more experienced Perl authors. Concepts appear and quickly vanish without trace. Examples are NOT explained fully and in a few cases at all. Further, forget it if you want to run Perl on a Windows platform. There's a slight mention of it only. Like other reviews here, the appendix (50+ pages in a 150 page book) is too long, too simple, and what REALLY angers me is that it's just a rehash from the book body. Mostly, word-for-word! The authors say it's REAL WORLD? Sorry, that's just plain incorrect - and they know it (at least I really hope they do?). This book starts out with good intentions but falls in a screaming heap too soon. And the price? Just more of a reason to look elsewhere.
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Summary: not for me, or the web?
Review: I frustrated myself for half a year searching for information on CGI. There simply is nothing online and nothing else in print that will teach you Perl if you are not already a fairly seasoned programmer. This book made it simple and plain, rather than garbled and hard to follow. It leads you through many examples - they're great because they are common, real-world scripts. The cover price is a bit shocking for such a small book, but it is absolutely worth it. The books I bought before, all more expensive and larger, are only helpful to me now that I have read through this book. Some of them are still impossible to read because the authors just don't know how to write. The authors of this book are experts at explaining new concepts.
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Summary: The above review is misleading
Review: I liked the book, and if you go to the website, you can download all the code for the examples.
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Summary: For diving into web CGI this is a MUST BUY
Review: If you are interested in learning perl for web cgi functions this book rocks. Its the only one I have run into that gives examples of code and explains it line by line, in layman! The only reason I am giving it 4 stars is because I could have used a few more examples. The book is toooo short. I warn potental readers that this book does not go into great detail about the perl language itself (which is useful for much more than web CGI) but if you don't care about that and want to dive into making forms and interactive web pages you have to buy this book now!
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Summary: For the extreme beginner
Review: Most 'beginning' programming books are written by very experienced programmers who are often out of touch with how much the newbie does not know.
Too often, certain key bits of knowledge are assumed and I found that too often, my mind was about ready to explode from frustration.
I admit that I just didn't get it, whatever 'it' was.
Then I found this book. It is extremely simple, but that is what I needed to get off the ground. Just as I learned to read from books by Dr. Seuss, I learned to program from reading this book -- it got me off the ground.
Just remember that finishing this book does not make you a programmer -- its code examples are very simplified and full of security holes. On the other hand, this book will fill in the concepts that other books miss and you will finally be ready to take on the more complex books that WILL make you a programmer.
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Summary: This book is bad.
Review: While in the beginning it may look harmless, this book ignores CGI.pm, the REAL way to write Perl CGI. Using there pitifully simple interface to the POST method, newbies are led to believe that their scripts work fine using a simple hash. Their supplied function leaves a blatant security hole that any average hacker can use to bomb the script and potentially your web server. All examples are oversimplified and remain poorly explained. The reason other people rate this book as GREAT is because they are not aware of the potential harmfulness that a few lines of insecure code can do. As a webmaster, I am qualified to bash this book. The book follows up by NOT mentioning anything about taint checking, warning flag, or the use of the "strict" pragma which should be used in ALL CGI scripts (if not all Perl scripts together). This book is a NO-NO! Real advice on perl/CGI can be found at PerlMonks.org or by reading the CGI manual pages included with every distribution of Perl.
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