The Complete e-Business and e-Commerce Programming Training Course (1st Edition) [Paperback]

Harvey Deitel (Author), Dietel And Nieto Deitel (Author), Deitel & Associates (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0130895490 | ISBN-13: 978-0130895493

In this complete book-and-multimedia training course, a team of the world's leading programming trainers teach you the fastest, most effective techniques for developing state-of-the-art e-Business and e-Commerce applications. You get the e-Business and e-Commerce Cyber Classroom, a hands-on, interactive multimedia CD-ROM complete with over 10,000 lines of fully-tested "live code" in 250 working programs, several hours of expert audio annotations, hundreds of programming exercises, and hundreds of interactive exercises. You also get e-Business & eCommerce How to Program, a start-to-finish guide to e-Business programming. The CD-ROM and book work together perfectly to teach you how to create virtually every essential e-Business feature: shopping carts, auctions, name-your-price, comparison shopping, intelligent agents, and much more. Whether you're building from scratch or choosing a turnkey solution, this package covers it all: architecture, hardware, software, tools, networking, consulting -- even legal, social, and marketing issues.

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Preface

Live in fragments no longer. Only connect.
Edward Morgan Forster

Welcome to the exciting world of e-business and e-commerce. This book is by an old guy and two young guys. The old guy (HMD; Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1967) has been programming and/or teaching programming for 40 years. The two young guys (PJD; MIT 1991 and TRN; MIT 1992) have each been programming and/or teaching programming for 19 years. The old guy programs and teaches from experience; the young guys do so from an inexhaustible reserve of energy. The old guy wants clarity; the young guys want performance. The old guy seeks elegance and beauty; the young guys want results. We got together to produce a book we hope you will find informative, challenging and entertaining.

E-business and e-commerce are evolving rapidly, if not explosively. This creates tremendous challenges for us as authors, for our publisher—Prentice Hall, for instructors, and for students and professional people. Why We Wrote e-Business and e-Commerce: How to Program

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel taught introductory programming courses in universities for 20 years with an emphasis on developing clearly written, well-designed programs. Much of what is taught in these courses is the basic principles of programming with an emphasis on the effective use of data types, control structures, arrays and functionalization. Our experience has been that students handle the material in this book in about the same manner as they handle it in introductory Pascal or C courses. There is one noticeable difference though: students are highly motivated by the fact that they are learning three leading-edge scripting languages (JavaScript, VBScript and Perl) and a leading-edge programming paradigm (object-based programming) that will be immediately useful to them as they leave the university environment and head into a world of e-business and e-commerce in which the Internet and the World Wide Web have a massive new prominence.

Our goal was clear: produce a textbook for introductory university-level courses in programming and business for students with little or no programming experience, yet offer the depth and the rigorous treatment of theory and practice demanded by traditional, upper-level programming and business courses in order to satisfy professionals' needs. To meet this goal, we produced a comprehensive book that patiently teaches the concepts behind a successful e-business as well as the principles of control structures, object-based programming and various markup languages (HTML, Dynamic HTML and XML) and scripting languages (JavaScript, VBScript and Perl). After mastering the material in this book, students will be well prepared to take advantage of the Internet and the Web as they take upper-level courses and venture into the rapidly changing business world.

e-Business and e-Commerce How to Program is the seventh book in the Deitel/Prentice Hall How to Program series. It is distinguished by its focus on Web-based application development (emphasized in our server-side treatment) and using it to create effective online businesses.

We have emphasized color throughout the book. The World Wide Web is a colorful, multimedia-intensive medium. It appeals to our visual and audio senses. Someday it may even appeal to our senses of touch, taste and smell as well! We suggested to our publisher, Prentice Hall, that they should publish this book in color. The use of color in this book is crucial to understanding and appreciating scores of the book's programs. From the start, the Web has been a color-intensive medium. We hope it helps you develop more appealing Web-based applications.

Many books about the Web concentrate on developing attractive Web pages. We certainly discuss that subject intensely. But more important, the key focus of this book is really Web-based applications development focused on building e-businesses. Our audiences want to build real-world, industrial-strength, Web-based e-businesses. These audiences care about good looking Web pages. But they also care about client/server systems, databases, distributed computing, etc. In the world of business, success depends on both marketing and reliability.

Many books about the Web are reference manuals with exhaustive listings of features. That is not our style. We concentrate on creating real applications. We provide the live-code examples on the CD accompanying this book so that you can run the applications and see and hear for yourself the multimedia outputs. One of the most exciting features of this text is an introduction to Macromedia's Flash—a cutting-edge multimedia technology for developing Web-based applications. It allows the user to develop interactive animated movies at a fraction of the size of traditional media file types. A Flash movie can be embedded into a Web site or run as a stand-alone program. You will learn how to make Flash movies with sound and interactive features that can be incorporated into your e-business Web sites.

The Web is an artist's paradise. Your creativity is your only limitation, but the Web contains so many tools and mechanisms to leverage your abilities that even if you are not artistically inclined, you can still create stunning outputs. Our goal is to help you master these tools and mechanisms so that you can maximize your creativity and development capabilities.

We are excited about the enormous range of possibilities the Internet and the Web offer. We performed extensive research for this book and located hundreds of Internet and Web resources (which we provide as live links on the CD-ROM that accompanies this book) to help you learn about building e-businesses. These links include general information, tutorials and demonstrations. Many of the demos are fun to try such as the E*TRADE investing game in which you can win cash prizes for participating in the demo. The resources also point you to lots of free stuff on the Internet.

This book is appropriate for students and professional people who wish to start their own ebusinesses. Many of the Internet and Web resources we include point you to turnkey solutions (some for a fee and some free) for creating e-businesses. You will also be able to use the programming technologies presented here to create e-businesses yourself (you will also need to connect with a bank and use an industrial-strength database system). Please read the tour of the book in Chapter 1 to familiarize yourself with the technologies we present for building real e-business and e; commerce applications.

We have worked hard to create hundreds of useful live-code examples to help you master Internet and Web programming quickly and effectively. All of the code examples are on the accompanying disk and are available for free download from our Web sites:

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We cover in depth Microsoft's Dynamic HTML as a means of adding "dynamic content" to World-Wide-Web pages. Instead of creating Web pages with only text and static graphics, we use Dynamic HTML to make Web pages "come alive" with audios, videos, animations, interactivity and three-dimensional imaging. Dynamic HTML's features are precisely what businesses and organizations need to meet today's information processing requirements. Teaching Approach

E-Business and e-Commerce How to Program contains a rich collection of examples, exercises, and projects drawn from many fields to provide the student with a chance to solve interesting real-world problems. The book concentrates on the principles of good software engineering and stresses program clarity. We avoid arcane terminology and syntax specifications in favor of teaching by example. The book is written by educators who spend most of their time writing about, and teaching, edge-of-the-practice programming topics in industry classrooms worldwide for Deitel & Associates, Inc. The text emphasizes good pedagogy.

Live-Code Teaching Approach
The book is loaded with hundreds of live-code examples. This is the focus of the way we teach and write about programming, and the focus of each of our multimedia Cyber Classrooms as well. Each new concept is presented in the context of a complete, working program immediately followed by one or more windows showing the program's input/output dialog. We call this style of teaching and writing our live-code approach. We use programming languages to teach programming languages. Reading these programs is much like entering and running them on a computer.

E-Business and e-Commerce How to Program first explains cutting-edge technologies and business models that are changing the way commerce is conducted, then shows how to create ebusiness Web sites starting with HTML programming, then rapidly proceeding to programming in JavaScript, Microsoft's Dynamic HTML, VBScript, Perl and XML. Students really want to "cut to the chase." There is great stuff to be done in all these languages, so let's get right to it! Web programming is not trivial by any means, but it's fun and students can see immediate results. Students can get graphical, animat --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

Includes the #1 interactive training courseware: e-Business and e-Commerce Programming Multimedia Cyber Classroom

Bonus 2nd CD includes: e-Business tools and resources you can use now!

Simply the fastest, easiest way to master e-Commerce programming!

• Comprehensive coverage of e-Business and e-Commerce programming, including JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, ASP, XML, Perl/CGI and important e-commerce paradigms, including shopping carts, auctions, name-your-price and others.
• Includes the world's #1 e-Business & e-Commerce textbook, e-Business & e-Commerce, How to Program, in print and on CD-ROM.
• 14,000+ lines of live code, 10+ hours of expert audio annotations, hundreds of programming exercises, practice exams and more!

Master e-business and e-commerce development~hands-on! You're holding the fastest, most effective way to master real-world e-Business & e-Commerce development! This start-to-finish book and multimedia training course covers key technologies and skills you need. One step at a time, you'll create essential e-Business features: shopping carts, auctions, name-your-price, comparison shopping, security and much more. It's all you need to know, in one box—architecture, hardware discussions, software, tools, even e-Business marketing and business models!

• Hundreds of complete, ready-to-run programs! 14,000+ lines of fully tested program code you can load, run and adapt with 10+ hours of detailed audio descriptions!
• Hundreds of interactive questions and programming exercises to test your knowledge.
• CD-ROM includes fully searchable copy of e-Business & e-Commerce, How to Program
• Hundreds of tips to maximize performance, avoid and troubleshoot problems and build a compelling customer experience!

The world's #1 e-commerce developer's guide:

• Start-to-finish, 1254-page guide to e-Business and e-Commerce!
• Friendly, practical and full of examples
• Hands-on tutorials with tips and tricks for troubleshooting and optimization
• Total coverage of Web development, from the basics to the leading edge
• Master all these key technologies: JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, ASP, XML, Perl/CGI and much more
• Real-world coverage of e-Business models, marketing, law, taxation, social issues and more

Bonus 2nd CD-ROM!

Packed with live e-Business & e-Commerce source code, software and URLs of demos from leading e-Business vendors, and links to hundreds of the Web's best e-Business resources!

The authors can be contacted at: [e-mail]). Our instructor is great in C and Java but has never taught OO/C++. But, today, I've been blessed. I found your C++ Interactive Training Course with CD. I also plan on learning Java as well, and now, thanks to your Interactive Training Course, I can fulfill my dream." —Broxi Thomas, university student

"I wanted to offer kudos for your product. If every training CD utilized the same format, then learning new products would be easy. The format, resources and layout of the classroom is refreshing and useful. It is clean, quick and effective. I began with Chapter One and took notes and tried every exercise; reviewed and listened to every example. I understand the material so much better now that I am amazed. PLEASE produce cyber classrooms for EVERY software package and technology that is in existence today. You would be doing a "beyond the call of duty" service to the computer industry. Of course, you would be a little busy for the next millennium.... :) " —Jonathan Gravois

SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR: Web developers Webmasters and Web designers seeking to master Web development skills Professional developers seeking to build Web applications Novice programmers

System Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT 4.x/2000 50MB disk space/64MB RAM 8x CD-ROM drive & sound card support Internet Explorer 5 Included

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (March 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130895490
• ISBN-13: 978-0130895493
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.3 x 2.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,424,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars E-commerce programming fully explained., October 5, 2000

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David Zolzer (Natchitoches, LA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: e-Business and e-Commerce How to Program (Paperback)

This is another excellent example of a Deitel & Deitel book. Following their easy to understand books on Visual Basic and C++, this book provides comprehensive coverage on creating a e-business or e-commerce web site. It is written in a clear and easily understood manner and filled with easy to understand examples. The provides a good understanding of the Internet and e-commerce business models and issues before moving into the technical aspect of creating a site. It provides excellent coverage of HTML, JavaScript/JScript, Dynamic HTML and cascading style sheets, Active Server Pages, and XML. This is an excellent resource for both the practioner and as a textbook in a beginning or advanced web development course. An excellent book!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great web dev book, and not just for e-commerce, October 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: e-Business and e-Commerce How to Program (Paperback)

I was looking for a book that provides a comprehensive overview of various web technologies and how they relate to each other. This book is it. It might be a little pricey, but is well worth the cost considering that you would probably need to buy 4-5 books (especially the Wrox books) to get the same coverage as this book does. The examples are concise and to the point. I especially like the color coding of the HTML examples which makes them so much more readable. If you're a beginner in web development, save yourself some money and buy this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing, August 2, 2006

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C. Graf "a reader" (US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: e-Business and e-Commerce How to Program (Paperback)

A collection of tons of information! Too bad it is put together in such a poor organizational fashion. Difficult to follow from start to finish.

Also, I'm not sure what the deal is with "Shiny" pages, but this text is printed on pages that are so shiny that reading it was a challenge. I had to hold it at just the right angle to prevent intrusive glare.

I will be a while before I purchase a book of this type online without checking it out in a book store before hand.