Customer Reviews

The Complete Internet and World Wide Web Programming Training Course (1st Edition)

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3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(4)
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I started using the Deitel books while taking C and C++ courses in college. Since then, I followed with Java, Visual Basic, and now this latest gem, Internet & World Wide Web. As always, the example listings are wonderfully documented and the text is very clear. The accompanying CD like those with their other books are of exceptional quality. That is, unlike many other book CDs, these will work in your world on your machine. Until I can take one of their classes, the book will be the best source of hands-on listings, examples and exercises to learn how to program web applications. 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.

This Internet book has excellent working listings to demonstrate and explain ActiveX, SQL, ADO, Perl and e-Commerce. The accompanying CD really does have MUCH more.

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.

The book is comprehensive and for the most part well organized. However, not disclosed on the Deitel Web Site, but only buried in the book, is the fact that Microsoft's Visual InterDev 6.0, Profession Edition is included only "to student editions of this book intended for academic use." In the book Deitel says, "Other readers...will need to purchase it separately." I am a graduate student and purchased the book for academic use in a graduate Instuctional Technology course. But because I did not learn of the above information until I had purchased the book from Amazon.com and started to read it, I do no have Visual InterDev 6.0 which is necessary for my course. I guess I needed to buy the book at the University Book Store to qualify. Copies provided to Amazon.com do not quality. I contacted Deitel, explained my problem, and provided them with coourse documentation, professor's name and email, etc., but they refused to exchange CD"s. I believe this information should be available to students before they buy the book.

If you want to build web development skills, you will not find a more clear, concise and COMPLETE source of information anywhere! This book takes a complete newcomer to web development and during the course of 1084 pages slowly transforms them into and entry-level professional web developer. The book slowly and steadily introduces the Internet and programming novice to Internet terminology, development tools (like FrontPage and Visual InterDev) and technologies (like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Dynamic HTML). Beginning programmers will be glad to know that there is also an introduction to programming concepts presented prior to the appearance of most of the programming scripts in the book.

More advanced developers will find the second half of the book to be EXCEPTIONALLY useful! It is an introduction to cutting-edge web development technologies that are driving the best sites on the web today. If you want to go to your next job interview and actually know what to say when they ask you about ActiveX Controls, SQL, ASP, Perl, CGI, and Java Servlets - then you need to read the second half of this book! Each of these topics is fully introduced in a clear manner with plenty of illustrative examples. Simply put, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to learn a lot about web development without any prior knowledge. I learned an incredible amount and HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!

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.

If you are not an experienced programmer, try a different book. I am a student in an IT program and our first course used this book. It jumps all over the place, introduces new concepts with out telling you, and the exercises can't be done without referencing other material.

Authors have a serious geekness problem.

Nice and playful introduction to virtually any type of internet related programming. Is a great resource for a "boot camp" type of training, much along the lines of the classic "Essential Client/Server Survival Guide" by Orfali et al. Contains many ready-to-run example programs in Perl, HTML, Javascript, you name it. The only serious draw-back is that the book presumes a Microsoft-only setup, it contains many examples that simply will not work on Netscape or non-windows computers. Unlike other books in this category these incompatibilities are not properly indicated (otherwise the book would have been worth a full 5 stars).

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: petesletters@aol.com .

I think this is an excellent book/course. I had already read one complete book called `HTML Complete' from Sams and then went looking for something that contained more of the extra additions to HTML programming, Once I saw this book/courseware, I just had to buy it, I like how it has the Computer based section, You do learn a lot more this way.

Your company wants to train you to be the corporate webmaster. You need to know HTML, ASP, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, Cgi, Active X and so much more. Then you find you that the training budget is limited to one class, what choices do you have?

If you're like me and money is the concern that invest in a self paced, highly detailed cyber classroom instructed training course and Prentice Hall has the right application and book for you to learn from and the authors put together a program will have you programming and coding right from the beginning to the end of the course.

In the book you find screen shots of the finished code, you'll find actual coding examples to follow along with and you'll find everything you need to make short work of the Web design. You will have to practice in order to master the techniques, but the self-pacing of the course gives you as much time as you need.

There are also 2 cd-roms included with the package. The first included Microsoft PWS, IE5, Paint Shop Pro (trial version) and Adobe Acrobat Reader. The other cd is the cyber classroom, packed with examples practice questions and tips for more interactive learning as you go.

Prentice Hall has proven to be a leader in the e-training arena and this package is a first rate example of that commitment to excellence. Visit Prentice Hall's web site for even more books and training courses, you won't be disappointed.