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 Is it worth buying?
Pretty good books as Web Programming books go, but do you need it? If you are taking a course and this is the text book then buy it, as good as any available. p...
 Good textbook
I teach a community college course in CSS and chose this book over many others after an agonizing review. Not necessarily because it is the absolute best book out there, but because it is well organized (at least for the 8 week course I teach), starts from square zero, and covers CSS well enough, with decent explanations and short tutorials to practice skills, and, from an instructor's point of view, there are a host of teaching materials that can come with the book to ease the burden of coming up with everything from scratch. The number of errors is kept down to a tolerable level too, and it is recent enough to have Netscape 6 info. It has a supporting web site as well, the "online companion", at http://www.course.com/downloads/webwarrior/css/index.htm. No other book out there offered all that. If you are not a teacher, you will probably find the book to be pretty solid, but you also may be able to find more knowledge for a cheaper price with another book, such as those written by Callihan, Pence, Teague, or Lie and Bos, which, for one reason or another didn't fit into my requirements for teaching this course but impressed me with other aspects. Negatives with this book for me include 1) uppercase html, 2) less than professionally inspiring examples, 3) price.
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