Cgi Primer Plus for Windows: Learn to Create Interactive Web Pages

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Summary: This book is awesome!
Review: CGI Primer Plus for Windows gives the reader an excellent overview of CGI, Perl and developing interactive web content. I was able to develop interactive CGIs after reading only a few chapters of this book. I would recommend this book and other books written by this author to everyone.

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Summary: Good book but you will need to purchase a Perl book!
Review: I like the concepts in the CGI Primer Plus for windows: I learned how to create an link generator, address book, email, and a survey interface using the book. The best feature about the 'CGI Primer Plus' is the number of applications in the book. The down side is the assumption the user knows Perl. I purchased the 'Perl 5 by Example Book'; read the first eight chapters, and dove into the 'CGI Primer Plus' book. The author's applications inspired to create numerous of my own applications. I'm very excited by the books value in terms of ideas and methods to apply perl. My wish list is to have a CGI book design for sybperl, Oracle, or Informix. Creating Database applications would be very valueable.

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Summary: The chapters are very uneven in understanding level
Review: The introductory chapters to the various CGI elements are very good even though written 3 - 1/2 years ago (thus previous to PerlEx). Some of the DOS screens needed a little introductory and conclusion text added to make them meaningful in context so I just penned it onto the particular book page. However, when dealing with the CGI complexities, e. g. , stateful programming, even though these are the most complex examples in the book, I kept looking for a different pedagogical approach that would make the examples in the book meaningful and relevant in context. I found that I had to re-write some of the example .pl scripts in that particular chapter to have them match the expected output printed in the text. Perhaps a second edition is overdue . . .

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Summary: The chapters are very uneven in understanding level
Review: The introductory chapters to the various CGI elements are very good even though written 3 - 1/2 years ago (thus previous to PerlEx). Some of the DOS screens needed a little introductory and conclusion text added to make them meaningful in context so I just penned it onto the particular book page. However, when dealing with the CGI complexities, e. g. , stateful programming, even though these are the most complex examples in the book, I kept looking for a different pedagogical approach that would make the examples in the book meaningful and relevant in context. I found that I had to re-write some of the example .pl scripts in that particular chapter to have them match the expected output printed in the text. Perhaps a second edition is overdue . . .

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Summary: Good book but you will need to purchase a Perl book!
Review: This book really helped me develop my skill at programming for the web. I would suggest also buying a separate book on PERL so that you can do more advanced stuff once this book has brought you through the basic and intemediate processes.