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Programming the World Wide Web (4th Edition)

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	Programming the World Wide Web (4th Edition)
	Author: Robert W. Sebesta Published: 2007-08-17
	List price: $100.00 Our price: $90.00	Usually ships in 24 hours As of: December 02nd, 2008 03:31:01 AM

Customer comments on this selection. 2 Star Review This book is covers the very basics about JavaScript, PHP, XML, XSL etc.. br / br /The explaination is also not too helpful. This book is for someone who just wants to view introductory information about web languages. I bought this book only because it was the text book for my online class. A Good Survey of Web Technologies br /This book fulfills its purpose of presenting a variety of web technologies to the user at an introductory level. All of the technologies on the cover of the book are given about a chapter (~20 pages) each. For someone with programming experience who knows very little about certain web technologies, such as what XSLT is and how to use it, the book is for you. br / br /However, this book will only get you to the intermediate level of familiarity and skill with these technologies. More advanced reading, practice coding, and use of online resources are necessary to really develop expertise in "programming the world wide web". This book is a very good starting point. A very academic approach to web programming If you are familiar with the author's book (in its many editions) on programming languages, all I can say is that this is written in a similar style - thorough and very academic. There are code examples demonstrating what is being discussed, and there are summaries in each chapter as well as exercises and review questions, but you might be left wondering "what is the big picture here?". It by no means has the programming manual style of an O'Reilly book that often works through one big project - or several of them - as a way of teaching you internet programming principles. The good thing about this book is that the author has covered each subject very thoroughly. The bad thing is that you will need to read the book in short doses digesting each portion slowly as his style is quite academic and each page is densely packed with information. Since the last edition the author has added three chapters covering Ruby, Rails, and Ajax. br / br /I would say this book is OK if you have a pretty good background in programming in C and C++ and already know something about web programming since there is only one preliminary chapter and it is rather vague. If you don't have such a background, let me recommend the various "Head First" books by O'Reilly and Associates on the subject as well as their other various books on web programming. You might wind up with more books and spend more money than if you buy this one, but I think your journey through the world of web programming will probably be more enjoyable and more comprehensible. There is no table of contents listed for this book in the product description, so I do that next: br / br /Chapter 1 Fundamentals br /1.1 A Brief Introduction to the Internet br /1.2 The World Wide Web br /1.3 Web Browsers br /1.4 Web Servers br /1.5 Uniform Resource Locators br /1.6 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions br /1.7 The Hypertext Transfer Protocol br /1.8 Security br /1.9 The Web Programmer's Toolbox br /1.10 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 2 Introduction to XHTML br /2.1 Origins and Purposes of HTML and XHTML br /2.2 Basic Syntax br /2.3 Standard XHTML Document Structure br /2.4 Basic Text Markup br /2.5 Images br /2.6 Hypertext Links br /2.7 Lists br /2.8 Tables br /2.9 Forms br /2.10 Frames br /2.11 Syntactic Differences between HTML and XHTML br /2.12 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 3 Cascading Style Sheets br /3.1 Introduction br /3.2 Levels of Style Sheets br /3.3 Style Specification Formats br /3.4 Selector Formats br /3.5 Property Value Forms br /3.6 Font Properties br /3.7 List Properties br /3.8 Color br /3.9 Alignment of Text br /3.10 The Box Model br /3.11 Background Images br /3.12 The span and div Tags br /3.13 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 4 The Basics of JavaScript br /4.1 Overview of JavaScript br /4.2 Object Orientation and JavaScript br /4.3 General Syntactic Characteristics br /4.4 Primitives, Operations, and Expressions br /4.5 Screen Output and Keyboard Input br /4.6 Control Statements br /4.7 Object Creation and Modification br /4.8 Arrays br /4.9 Functions br /4.10 An Example br /4.11 Constructors br /4.12 Pattern Matching Using Regular Expressions br /4.13 Another Example br /4.14 Errors in Scripts br /4.15 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 5 JavaScript and HTML Documents br /5.1 The JavaScript Execution Environment br /5.2 The Document Object Model br /5.3 Element Access in JavaScript br /5.4 Events and Event Handling br /5.5 Handling Events from Body Elements br /5.6 Handling Events from Button Elements br /5.7 Handling Events from Text Boxes and Password Elements br /5.8 The DOM 2 Event Model br /5.9 The navigator Object br /5.10 DOM Tree Traversal and Modification br /5.11 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 6 Dynamic Documents with JavaScript br /6.1 Introduction br /6.2 Positioning Elements br /6.3 Moving Elements br /6.4 Element Visibility br /6.5 Changing Colors and Fonts br /6.6 Dynamic Content br /6.7 Stacking Elements br /6.8 Locating the Mouse Cursor br /6.9 Reacting to a Mouse Click br /6.10 Slow Movement of Elements br /6.11 Dragging and Dropping Elements br /6.12 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 7 Introduction to XML br /7.1 Introduction br /7.2 The Syntax of XML br /7.3 XML Document Structure br /7.4 Document Type Definitions br /7.5 Namespaces br /7.6 XML Schemas br /7.7 Displaying Raw XML Documents br /7.8 Displaying XML Documents with CSS br /7.9 XSLT Style Sheets br /7.10 XML Processors br /7.11 Web Services br /7.12 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 8 The Basics of Perl br /8.1 Origins and Uses of Perl br /8.2 Scalars and Their Operations br /8.3 Assignment Statements and Simple Input and Output br /8.4 Control Statements br /8.5 Fundamentals of Arrays br /8.6 Hashes br /8.7 References br /8.8 Functions br /8.9 Pattern Matching br /8.10 File Input and Output br /8.11 An Example br /8.12 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 9 Using Perl for CGI Programming br /9.1 The Common Gateway Interface br /9.2 CGI Linkage br /9.3 Query String Format br /9.4 The CGI.pm Module br /9.5 A Survey Example br /9.6 Cookies br /9.7 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 10 Servlets and Java Server Pages br /10.1 Overview of Servlets br /10.2 Servlet Details br /10.3 A Survey Example br /10.4 Storing Information on Clients br /10.5 Java Server Pages br /10.6 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 11 Introduction to PHP br /11.1 Origins and Uses of PHP br /11.2 Overview of PHP br /11.3 General Syntactic Characteristics br /11.4 Primitives, Operations, and Expressions br /11.5 Output br /11.6 Control Statements br /11.7 Arrays br /11.8 Functions br /11.9 Pattern Matching br /11.10 Form Handling br /11.11 Files br /11.12 Cookies br /11.13 Session Tracking br /11.14 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 12 Introduction to ASPNET br /12.1 Overview of the .NET Framework br /12.2 Overview of C# br /12.3 Introduction to ASPNET br /12.4 ASP.NET Controls br /12.5 Web Services br /12.6 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 13 Database Access through the Web br /13.1 Relational Databases br /13.2 An Introduction to the Structured Query Language br /13.3 Architectures for Database Access br /13.4 The MySQL Database System br /13.5 Database Access with Perl and MySQL br /13.6 Database Access with PHP and MySQL br /13.7 Database Access with JDBC and MySQL br /13.8 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 14 Introduction to Ruby br /14.1 Origins and Uses of Ruby br /14.2 Scalar Types and Their Operations br /14.3 Simple Input and Output br /14.4 Control Statements br /14.5 Fundamentals of Arrays br /14.6 Hashes br /14.7 Methods br /14.8 Classes br /14.9 Code Blocks and Iterators br /14.10 Pattern Matching br /14.11 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 15 Introduction to Rails br /15.1 Overview of Rails br /15.2 Document Requests br /15.3 Processing Forms br /15.4 Rails Applications and Databases br /15.5 Layouts br /15.6 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises br / br /Chapter 16 Introduction to Ajax br /16.1 Overview of Ajax br /16.2 The Basics of Ajax br /16.3 Rails with Ajax br /16.4 Summary br /Review Questions br /Exercises Great The item was in perfect condition and it really arrived in 'no time' :) Thx guys! Good Introduction This item arrived damaged, having bounced too much in the box. However, the book does nothing more than discuss difficult languages used in web presence. This should not be your only reference to web development, but rather a neat introduction. Material placement also not optimum.
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