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| Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Second Edition (ISBN: 0201735687) |
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List Price: $19.99
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Release Date: 29 May, 2001
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press (Paperback)
Sales Rank: 7,125
Author: Elizabeth Castro
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Average Customer Review:  
Although I am computer knowledgeable and have several certifications, I knew absolutely nothing about Perl and CGI before reading this text. I looked at several other texts that were larger but seemed to contain a lot more fluff instead of actually useful information. This book was excellent for learning Perl and CGI starting from complete ground zero.
Within hours I was creating and testing scripts and actually wrote one to do what I needed done. I also downloaded another script that would not work and was able to troubleshoot and fix it to do what I needed. An excellent book that walks you through the steps one item at a time it was easy to understand and work through.
One of the things that this book contained that I did not see in other books was instructions on how to download, install and setup a personal server so that you can test the scripts you write as you learn. This information alone makes this book superior to most others. There is no better learning environment than being able to actually write and test the scripts.
Some HTML knowledge is assumed, however it is very little. Picking up a basic HTML book allows you to quickly come up to speed with the knowledge assumed. On the other hand, the required HTML knowledge is easily obtained from various sites on the Internet.
I could not recommend this book highly enough for anyone who needs to learn Perl and CGI basics and needs to get up to speed as soon as possible.
| a windfall for the freshman | |
This book is not just another massive tome guaranteed to baffle the novice. Unlike other works on Perl and CGI scripting, Elizabeth Castro lets you test your own scripts by installing a personal server downloadable from the web. The chapter 'Unix Essentials' serves as a basic phrase book of Unix commands, a blessing for CGI neophytes like myself. This slim volume is packed with punch because instead of having to plow through pages and pages of enigmatic codes, you can check the scripts you write in the chapters by comparing them to the downloaded material. The illustrations are easy to understand although some prior knowledge of HTML is assumed. If that's not the case, you can use the downloaded forms as a beginning point for creating your own designs. In short, this condensed volume really delivers what it promises and is a windfall for freshman programmers like myself.
| Excellent beginner book for Perl CGI | |
Great beginner book for learning how to build Perl CGI scripts for your websites. It does assume that you already understand basic programming concepts and know HTML.This book explains how to: process data entered through HTML forms; work with strings, arrays, conditional statements, and subroutines; work with cookies; and write to external files. I would've liked to have seen a little more about matching and parsing in the 'Analyzing Data' section and also about what makes a Perl CGI script different from a regular Perl script (in other words, just a little bit more about CGI)--but it's still an excellent book.
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