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Summary: A very good book
Review: A complete book for all about CGI programming, specially for beginners. It's clear and has a lot of real examples.
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Summary: A good one
Review: Although this book is only 224 pages, it is supplied with lots of(believe me, with lots of) useful information that other books out there lack. At the same time, I wouldn't call it an ideal CGI book for the reasons that I'll get into below. My first CGI book was Elizabeth Castro's quick start guide, which does a good job on regex(very good job on regex) and other "getting started" stuff; better than this book's coverage. But Jacqueline gets as deep as making use of perl modules, and creating those of your own. Even introduces mySql database manipulation with DBI, which I found very usefull. List of SSI elements in Chapter 9 is definitely worth the praise. The whole beauty of perl's taint checking is also explained thoroughly. The book doesn't cover the Formatting capabilities of perl in details, but still it's more detailed than that of Elizabeth Castro's. Although CGI PROGRAMMING 101 does supply the reader with enormous useful information, in some cases I felt that I needed a little more detailed explanation of the topic. Especially her examples of using DBI and GD were lack of sufficient explanation (of course all the codes worked fine). There's a section called object orientedness(Chp 17), but don't expect much. There's nothing much to discover in there if you're concerned with OOP(except the phrase. "Object Oriented" in case you've never heard it). If you are a little bit familiar with CGI/Perl or came from a programming background such as C, awk, seed and etc. go ahead and buy this book. If you're a novice, Elizabeth Castro's quick start guide could be a good choice (I hope). But even though you buy Elizabeth Castro's, you'll need another book after that, which probably, will be CGI PROGRAMMING 101. If CGI programming is more than your hobby. After the aforementioned books, go for Larry Wall's Camel (Programming Perl), 3rd edition, which is concidered Perl's Bible (from the Perl's author).
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Summary: CGI in under 101 minutes
Review: an excellent book which is clearly laid out and self-explanatory. this book makes cgi easy! - for all you developers designers out there this is the solution......
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Summary: Lots of practice, not much theory
Review: As an experienced software programmer with no previous knowledge of Perl and the need to get some website scripts operational quickly, I found this book truly amazing. If you don't know anything about programming, though, it's probably not the place to start. I loved this book.
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Summary: Latest Review from Dawit
Review: As I was reading through the reviews of this book, I couldn't help notice dawit's entry, which is presently first in the list. Apparently, he is reviewing the wrong book. "Seasoned UNIX user"? I know about 5 commands in UNIX and had absolutely no trouble with the examples. If he would have read through the book further, he would have seen a brief UNIX tutorial in one of the appendices. The book does address some UNIX in the beginning, but it addresses commands that most web developers should be familiar with. Chmod, not that difficult of a concept - give me a break! Since Perl was developed in UNIX, with UNIX folks in mind, you're going to have to buckle down and familiarize yourself with the basics of UNIX. It's hardly geared towards the UNIX guru, however. Beginners, this is the book to start with, bottom line.
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Summary: An Marvelous Book for the Complete Beginner
Review: CGI 101 serves as a paradigm for any intro to programming course/book. The text is very easy to follow, and filled with useful examples from the start. Within a day or so of having read the first few chapters, I was actually programming, and understanding the "whys" of what I was doing. Because of the foundation I now have from reading this book, I am able to write scripts that have proved useful at work and for personal projects. Thanks to Jackie Hamilton for a wonderful job! Others considering writing an intro to programming book, read this book, and use it as a model. Can't wait to see future releases from this author!
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Summary: Great Book on Perl/CGI...Easy to follow. Good examples.
Review: CGI Programming 101 is a really good book. It is clearly written. Easy to follow and the examples are great. A great book for anyone that wants to learn more about CGI/Perl.
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Summary: A MUST HAVE BOOK FOR BEGINNERS!
Review: Hello! I'm a very beginner (student in university) and I'm using windows version of perl (win32, perl 5.004). I only know unix a little little bit, but this book is very helpful for me to understand many basic and tricky parts of CGI. By the way, in terms of the syntax and the code itself, UNIX version of perl and win32 perl are not that different!(unless you really really know nothing about perl! ) To keep it simple, I did a on-line shopping page and this book has answered many of my dilemas and headache questions, it's a good book, good website. The book is very useful for begginners who knows a little bit of perl.
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Summary: easy to read, excellent content
Review: i am a fairly bad perl programmer. this book has helped me write some really smart (yet easy to understand) programs which i use everyday. if you want to get to grips with perl and cgi, get your hands on this book. especially if you know nothing about perl or cgi... although i recommend php as a better language!
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Summary: Beginning Perl Programmers Need This Book
Review: I come from a graphic design background and got into web design about 4 years ago. Most of my programming experience has been with Cold Fusion , JavaScript, and HTML. I wanted to learn Perl because I was tired of the limitations of my knowledge base and the frustrating idiosyncrasies of the Windows NT systems and applications that I was enslaved to. After dozens of other Perl books I stumbled onto Ms. Hamilton's. This is the perfect book for a beginner. She painlessly takes the reader into the very powerful and liberating language of Perl and immediately shows you how to incorporate it into your web designs. She is a fantastic teacher. Her code works and the examples are real world. If you are new to Perl and CGI, not a programmer, know HTML, and are totally confused as to where to start, start with this book and then go on to the O'Reilly book. "Learning Perl, 2nd Edition". I also recommend signing up for an account with Hamilton's web hosting company CGI101.com for the following reason. Her hosting site is very CGI friendly and all the scripts work flawlessly on her system. That way you won't freak out if something is wrong with your code and spend all your time thinking "Is it my code, is it the book's screwed up examples, or is the ISP configured in a way that makes these scripts not work?" If you're on her ISP everything works the way it's supposed to from the book. So the learning experience is much faster. Take it from someone who has learned everything about computers the hard way and has had no "gurus" available to help. This book packs more in its 200 pages than 99% of all the other 1000+ page books on Perl that litter book store shelves. I hope Ms. Hamilton publishes a sequel, and possibly books on other internet topics. She is a gifted writer and instructor.
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