Description: I thought this was a very complete, well written description of CGI programming. It's informative reading and also makes a great reference. There've been lots of CGI programming by example books out there that try to show you a few examples and go from there. As this book claims, its approach is to teach you to understand how things work and use examples to support this instead of the other way around. It's complete, and the topics it covers even extend beyond CGI programming to other forms of web programming (especially mod_perl but even Java too). This book doesn't try to teach you Perl, but I've not seen a good book that succeeds in teaching both together. Perl isn't just for CGI programming and there's a lot to it. If you need an intro to Perl, buy "Learning Perl" by Randal Schwartz (also by O'Reilly)... it's not too long and very well written, and after reading that then you'll be ready to learn to apply Perl to CGI. I looked at the errata and there were some errors in the initial ..
ISBN:
1565924193
Release Date:
15 January, 2000
List Price:
$24.47
Author:
Gunther Birznieks, Scott Guelich, Shishir Gundavaram
Publisher:
O'Reilly & Associates
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
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