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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2 edition (20 Jun 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0201735687
ISBN-13: 978-0201735680
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 17.5 x 2 cm

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3.0 out of 5 stars Best of a Bad Bunch, 4 April 2002

By	David Cross "davorg" (London, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Just about any book that claims to teach both Perl and CGI programming to complete beginners does it very badly. I don't know why that it, but this genre seems to attract authors who don't know what they're talking about. Sure they explain things in very a very easy to understand manner - but the information they pass on is usually incomplete.

The first edition of this book was very much in that camp. The Perl you learnt from it was terrible. The second edition is much better. It now includes a number of acknowledged Perl "best practices" that other books ignore, including "use strict", "-wT" and "CGI.pm".

My problem is that whilst it uses these features, I don't think it really explains _why_ you should use them. It all sounds a bit too close to "cargo-cult" programming to me (where you program simply by copying existing code, you don't make any effort to understand what's going on).

If you want a simple introduction to programming in Perl to write CGI programs then this book is head and shoulders above any of its competitors. However, if you want to understand more about Perl and CGI then you've be better off reading "Elements of Programming with Perl" following by "CGI Programming with Perl".

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4.0 out of 5 stars Simple But Good Reference, 30 April 2003

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This book was my first perl book. I had very little knowledge and found it covered the basics very well. I would advice you buy this book if you have a specific objective in mind, or already have a very basic knowledge of perl. It serves very well as a reference manual once you have grasped the basic concepts, and everything that is shown comes equipped with an easy to follow example.

Certainly an excellent beginners book, but still useful for general reference one you know what you are doing!

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1.0 out of 5 stars This book is a load of rubbish, 28 Feb 2002

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I was very disappointed with this book. It claims to be accessible and jargon-free etc, but this is not the case at all. In particular, the descriptions she gives do not match the examples shown to illustrate them, which is very confusing.

It says on the back: "no long-winded passages - concise, straighforward commentary explains what you need to know". This too is untrue in my opinion. If you know what it is you need to know, then you won't find it in just one place, you have to keep searching back and forth for the relevant parts.

Also, there is no straightforward glossary of terms, in particular of perl commands etc. These are just thrown into the mix with what looks like only partial explanations. In fact this seems to be true of the book in general: In an effort to make the book accessible, we are presented with half-facts, which leaves one with the feeling not only of having been patronised, but also that information is being withheld, which has the net result of undermining one's confidence that what one learns from the book is the whole story, ie can be used outside the context of the book.

If you want to be able to do exactly what it says in the book,and nothing more, without very much real understanding of why you're doing what you're doing, then fine, but this book does not equip you to use Perl for your own creative uses, not at all. I'm no better off for having read it, that's for sure.

Very disappointed. Worse than useless.

Am taking it back to the shop for a refund.

Complete load of rubbish.

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