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Perl Index - Perl Book :
Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide
by Elizabeth Castro Paperback: 272 pages Dimensions (in inches): 0.73 x 9.02 x 6.95 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co ISBN: 020135358X; (November 13, 1998) One of the best things about Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web is the seamless way the author incorporates terminology into her explanations. Elizabeth Castro, author of HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, understands the intermediate user: someone who would be bored by a beginner's guide, but isn't ready to step up to heavy-hitting programming texts either. In Perl and CGI, she explains basic concepts--such as the difference between a compiled and an interpreted script--within the text, so there's no need to keep flipping back to the glossary. Readers should be familiar with HTML and comfortable with technical explanations, diagrams, and general vocabulary. Anyone trying to get a grasp on something as complex and powerful as Perl will appreciate Castro's relatively straightforward technique. For example, in the first chapter, Castro explains some basic Perl concepts sensibly: that the $ stands for the s in scalar; the @ sign stands for the a in array; and that the % that labels a hash or associative array indicates two circles on each side of the slash as parts of a pair. This granular, logical way of building Perl knowledge will get new Perl users started. More experienced users will want to use this book as a workbook and refresher. --Jennifer Buckendorff From Book News, Inc.: Taking a visual approach, this guide uses ample screen stills to explain the basic components of Perl, and show how to install and customize existing CGI scripts to build interactivity into Web sites. Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR Book Description: Perl is by far the most popular programming language for creating scripts that add powerful interactive features to Web pages. Included on most UNIX platforms and available free of charge for Windows and Macintosh, Perl lets you place forms on your Web site that collect and process user input such as product orders and comments, enable visitors to conduct keyword searches for information on your site, and integrate a database into your site, among many other capabilities. Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide gets you to the heart of Perl scripting with CGI. Even first-time programmers will be able to create interactive Web pages and, more importantly, you'll be able to use your new-found familiarity with Perl to understand and customize the multitude of scripts that already exist on the Web. Following on the huge success of Liz Castro's top-selling HTML:Visual QuickStart Guide-the book to have to learn or reference HTML-Castro's Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide is soon to becomethe choice for learning Perl and CGI. Author of the acclaimed, best-selling HTML:Visual QuickStart Guide, with over 100,000 copies sold. Teaches you all you need to know to start creating CGI scripts in Perl. Shows how to make your Web pages stand out with interactive features such as guest books and forms. Assumes no prior programming experience. Ingram: This guide empowers new Web developers with the skills they need to build user interactivity into their Web sites, explaining all the basic components of Perl--scalars, arrays, hashes, basic operators, and functions. From the Back Cover: Perl is by far the most popular programming language for creating scripts that add powerful interactive features to Web pages. Included on most UNIX platforms and available free of charge for Windows and Macintosh, Perl lets you place forms on your Web site that collect and process user input such as product orders and comments, enables visitors to conduct keyword searches, and lets you integrate a database into your site, among many other capabilities. Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide gets you to the heart of Perl scripting with CGI. Even first-time programmers will be able to create interactive Web pages and, more importantly, use their newfound familiarity with Perl to understand and customize the multitude of scripts that already exist on the Web. Following on the huge success of Elizabeth Castro's top-selling HTML 4: Visual QuickStart Guide ---the book on HTML--her Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide is sure to become the choice for learning Perl and CGI. About the Author: Elizabeth Castro began working with the Macintosh in a software development and distribution company called CTA, in Barcelona, Spain. Her first project was the translation of an OCR program into English, which was quickly followed by the translation of Aldus PageMaker (version 3!) into Spanish. Castro's department, Publications, was soon translating other programs from Aldus, as well as software from Agfa, Farallon and the Wheels for the Mind magazine for Apple Computer Spain. In 1990, Castro founded Pagina Uno together with Oriol Carbo. One of Pagina Uno's first projects was the translation of The Macintosh Bible, 3rd edition, into Spanish: La Biblia del Macintosh. It was a great success, thanks to the unerring tone of Arthur Naiman combined with the brilliant translation of Jose Rafael Garcia Bermejo (affectionately known as Coti) and Oriol Carbo, among others. Pagina Uno published several more Peachpit books about the Macintosh in Spanish and also began to localize Adobe products like Photoshop, Premiere and Dimensions into Spanish. In 1993, Castro left Pagina Uno (and her beloved Barcelona) and returned to the US to edit the fifth edition of the Mac Bible. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Mike Patterson from Reno, Nevada "Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web" is the very best computer instruction book of ANY kind that I have ever read! After a week at HP's Perl training, I had returned to work a bit demoralized. I had learned the nuts and bolts of Perl, but I did not get the skills to help me create dynamic Web content. After buying this book (and several others), I wrote a basic email Web interface the same day! Then, I quickly moved on to a complete paging solution that our Support Desk now uses! I hadn't programmed (outside of shell scripting) in years, but I got results. As a UNIX Systems Administrator, I've been through many training courses and have 100+ computer books. None of them make an effort explain the task, SHOW you the code and the expected results like this book! In 272 pages, this book covers more PRACTICAL information about writing CGI programs in Perl than over 1500 pages in the other CGI books that I purchased! Reviewer: A reader from Alabama, USA I have read several other books in an attempt to learn Perl, but they were either too technical or too boring to even hold my interest. This book is the polar opposite. It is the first Perl manual I've read that actually explains Perl line by line, in a language that even an old dog novice like myself can understand. Instead of filling the pages with line after line of obscure Perl code without the slightest hint of explanation, the code here is explained beautifully. My questions were answered almost before they came to mind. That is why this book was so effective. I was writing simple cgi's even before finishing the book. This afternoon, I wrote a cgi that takes input from a lengthy form, prints a confirmation/thank you html page to let the user know that their input was received, sends the parsed and formatted form data via email to the receiving party, and generates an include file that automatically updates an online html log that everyone in the company can see and track. Two weeks ago I couldn't have possibly done this. Honestly, I wouldn't even have known where to start. No, this is not a complete Perl training manual, nor is it meant to be. But if you need to use Perl/CGI on the web to process forms and information, there is no better book on the market. I use it everyday and highly recommend it to everyone. Reviewer: A reader from Fishers, Indiana United States The book purports to be a visual quickstart guide. However, you will need a microscope to view the examples; which after close examination, you will find to be the same examples you can get for free on-line. The extensive use of deprecated code is more than just annoying, especially the code that was deprecated prior to publishing. The publishers should have caught that. Get the O'Reilly book instead: the one with the mouse on the cover. Reviewer: Bruce McKay from Pennington, NJ USA Work in Windows or Mac? Want to find out how to do something with Perl and CGI on your computer under Windows or Mac? Excellent starter reference book. Ms. Castro tells you where to get the free programs you must have to do Perl and CGI on your own desktop before you try publishing on the Web. Once you've gone through this book you'll need more (I've bought from Amazon: CGI Programming 101 {Jacqueline Hamilton} and Learning Perl {Schwartz and Phoenix}) but Castro's book will enable you to get set up, become familiar with Perl and CGI basics, and be ready to move on. |
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