Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program (4th Edition) [Paperback]

Paul Deitel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0131752421 | ISBN-13: 978-0131752429 | Publication Date: September 20, 2007 | Edition: 4

Internet and World Wide Web How to Program, 4e  by market leading authors, Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel introduces readers with little or no programming experience to the exciting world of Web-Based applications.  This book has been substantially revised to reflect today's Web 2.0 rich Internet application-development methodologies.  A comprehensive book that covers the fundamentals needed to program on the Internet, this book provides in-depth coverage of introductory programmming principles, various markup languages (XHTML, Dynamic HTML and XML), several scripting languages (JavaScript, PHP, Ruby/Ruby on Rails and Perl); AJAX, web services, Web Servers (IIS and Apache) and relational databases (MySQL/Apache Derby/Java DB) -- all the skills and tools needed to create dynamic Web-based applications.  The book contains comprehensive introductions to ASP.NET 2.0 and JavaServer Faces (JSF) and a new chapter on Adobe Flex 2.0.  Hundreds of live-code examples of real applications are throughout the book.  The examples are downloadable from the Deitel website once registered and logged in and allow readers to run the applications and see and hear the outputs.  The book provides instruction on building Ajax-enabled rich Internet applications that enhance the presentation of online content and give web applications the look and feel of desktop applications.  The chapter on Web 2.0 and Internet business exposes readers to a wide range of other topics associated with Web 2.0 applications and businesses  After mastering the material in this book, readers will be well prepared to build real-world, industrial strength, Web-based applications. For Internet and Web-based computer programmers, and others in organizations and businesses who need to develop their own Websites and pages.

 

 

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Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. He holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer certifications, and has been designated by Sun Microsystems as a Java Champion. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++, C# and Visual Basic courses to industry clients, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Lucent Technologies, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Stratus, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He has also lectured on Java and C++ for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world’s best-selling programming language textbook authors.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 45 years of academic and industry experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the MIT and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He and Paul are the co-authors of several dozen books and multimedia packages and they are writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish, the Deitels’ texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of professional seminars to major corporations, academic institutions, government organizations and the military.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1424 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4 edition (September 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131752421
• ISBN-13: 978-0131752429
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #69 in Books > Computers & Technology > Web Development > Web Services

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good introductory book on Web programming by the Deitels, October 18, 2007

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This review is from: Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program (4th Edition) (Paperback)

This book is much better with more detail and in a more interesting format than the Deitels' other books on computer technology. It has been so in the previous three editions, and this edition continues the tradition while updating the contents to reflect the new technologies on both the client and the server that are available for rich Internet applications. It has a very good introduction to Javascript for the novice programmer as well as a good explanation of Ajax. In fact, it's one of the clearer explanations of that technology that I've seen. I really liked the section on Adobe Flash CS3 and how the authors illustrated the usage of the application by building a simple interactive game. The appendix is very useful with information on XHTML tags,
Javascript, and various coding systems. Very much recommended for someone starting out programming who wants to know what programming on the Internet is like in the year 2007 without already being an expert desktop programmer in C++ or Java. If you're not familiar with the Deitels' approach to technical books, they favor an example-based approach with lots of recipes in numbered steps and "live-code" examples that are usually color-coded so that certain portions of the code are highlighted as the text discusses each portion. For this subject the approach works well and keeps things moving. The product description does not show a table of contents, so I do that next:

Part 1: Introduction 1
1 Introduction to Computers and the Internet 2
2 Web Browser Basics: Internet Explorer and Firefox 28
3 Dive Into Web 2.0 50

Part 2: The Ajax Client 117
4 Introduction to XHTML 118
5 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 159
6 JavaScript: Introduction to Scripting 19
7 JavaScript: Control Statements I 234
8 JavaScript: Control Statements II 278
9 JavaScript: Functions 321
10 JavaScript: Arrays 362
11 JavaScript: Objects 403
12 Document Object Model (DOM): Objects and Collections 458
13 JavaScript: Events 487
14 XML and RSS 515
15 Ajax-Enabled Rich Internet Applications 588

Part 3: Rich Internet Application Client Technologies 635
16 Adobe Flash CS3 636
17 Adobe Flash CS3: Building an Interactive Game 683
18 Adobe Flex 2 and Rich Internet
19 Microsoft Silverlight and Rich Internet Applications 770
20 Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 830

Part 4: Rich Internet Application Server Technologies 857
21 Web Servers (IIS and Apache) 858
22 Database: SQL, MySQL, ADONET 2.0
23 PHP 905
24 Ruby on Rails 956
25 ASPNET 2.0 and ASPNET Ajax 1009
26 JavaServer FacesWeb Applications 1118
27 Ajax-Enabled JavaServer Faces
28 Web Services 1225

Part 5: Appendices 1303
A XHTML Special Characters 1304
B XHTML Colors 1305
C JavaScript Operator Precedence Chart 1308
D ASCII Character Set 1310
E Number Systems 1311
F Unicode 1325

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, thorough, everything in one place, October 5, 2007

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This review is from: Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program (4th Edition) (Paperback)

This book goes indepth into every possible web development code/means/software it's simply amazing. I have good experience in C++ but none in web development, this book is akin to savitch's book on C++, it's very well done and very in depth I would highly recommend it to anyone who is eager to learn to do web design.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wide Range of Topics Covered but Overpriced, December 27, 2008

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This review is from: Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program (4th Edition) (Paperback)

Your better off buying books specific to the technology your trying to learn. You'll get more details. This book offers a wide range of topics but doesn't go into necessary details for each one. Hard read also and expensive. This was a required book for a college course.