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Perl, CGI and JavaScript Complete (Paperback)

by Sybex Inc. (Author) "Imagine being able to create interactive multimedia adventure games that anyone can play over the World Wide Web ..." (more)
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Perl was originally created as a programming tool for Unix, but the emergence of the Web has thrust Perl into the mainstream. Perl 5 has became the language of choice for creating CGI scripts to add interactivity to Web sites. JavaScript is Netscape′s popular scripting language for building interactive Web applications and is often used in combination with Perl.

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Sybex Inc.: Sybex editors and authors have created this book by pulling together the best information from our Web development books (including Mastering Perl 5, Perl and CGI: No Experience Required, Mastering JavaScript, Mastering HTML Premium Edition, and Dynamic HTML: Master the Essentials), plus added complete reference information on Perl and JavaScript.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not for the beginner!, 24 Jul 2001
Okay, so I decided to learn Perl the hard way - I taught myself... Bought a few books, one of which was this one. I found it a bit confusing, unorganised, and genrally difficult to understand. The reference pages at the back are quite useful, though they could be a little more thorough, but the examples tend to throw you in head first, and make sure you don't get up for a while.

I went for the 1000 pages...Not good! You tend to work through all the code, expect to understand everything, then ten pages on, it might explain it. Briefly.

I'd recomend the 'Sams Teach yourself...' range if you are to take the same route as I have. Then maybe invest in this a little later.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars I should have thought more carefully before buying this one, 3 Nov 2003
By Mr. M. C. Gaylard (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete (Paperback)
No it's not! Complete that is.

This a cut down and cobbled together version of other Sybex books.

I should have thought more carefully before buying this one but was blinded by the fact that it some examples of exactly what I wanted to do.

For me it this book does just not work.

The whole look and feel of the book is wrong. It feels the wrong size when you use it. Nice and thick, you feel it is going to be thorough. But the pages are just the wrong size. It really seems to make the reference section uncomfortable to use.

It is printed on horrible paper too.

It was this book that led me to buy all my others!

I guess that at the end of the day, trying to learn three things requires three books. This may serve as a reference when you have an idea of what you are doing but I doubt it.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Cheap but patchy compilation doesn't really work, 15 Aug 2004
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This review is from: Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete (Paperback)
My experience with this book focuses on the Perl sections, although I did briefly use some of the JavaScript content.

Impressions of the Perl/CGI sections are that they contain some useful information which is badly presented- you'll certainly want a highlighter to pick out stuff (good job this is a cheap book).

The ordering is odd. We get a brief introduction to CGI/Perl (fine), then 'Your first program' (okay, but basic, and includes too much non-Perl stuff)....

Then, suddenly, before we've written much at all, there is an in-depth description of the Perl debugger, and the obscure errors that can occur. Next, a more in-depth chapter with forms (should follow 'Your First Program'). Then, some stuff on how Unicode relates to Perl....

The writing styles are generally dry, which would be forgiveable if the book had more coherence. This is partly due to it being an (edited) compilation of material from other sources. Such an approach can work if the subject matter is modular ('Linux Complete, Second Edition' is more successful for this reason), but it fails here.

My other gripe is the layout and 'feel' of the book. As one other reviewer said, it's just "wrong". The format doesn't feel good for program listings, and there are too many "screengrabs of the Windows console" instead of having the material integrated into the text. In addition, some of the code doesn't appear to be available online.

As I got this from Amazon for just over a tenner(!), I guess you can't complain. Doubtless I'll find some useful stuff within after learning Perl from another book, but it's too much of a rag-bag for me to recommend it.

Update (Jul 2006): I've used the JavaScript material more since I wrote the review above. Whilst slightly more coherent and providing some useful grounding, it's still nothing like complete. The reference section is now starting to date, and isn't *that* clearly-formatted. It's passable, but I still ended up buying a "proper" Javascript book; Danny Goodman's "Javascript Bible".
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