Product Description

Web programming is about more than creating and formatting webpages and websites, though that is often a starting point for many. Using scripting languages such as JavaScript, Perl and PH, it becomes possible to add a lot more functionality to a site.

This book teaches the essentials of working with the most important web technologies. From client development using HTML and Javascript, through to full server side applications written in ASP and Perl, the complete web system is shown. Concentrating on immediately useful code rather than theory, this is a how–to book for practical and project based courses. The broad scope covered by this book begins by creating reasonably simple webpages with HTML, then working through related document and content tagging systems such as dynamic HTML and eventually XML.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #182280 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 678 pages

LTSN-ICS Book Review, 18 September 2001
"It is clear from the outset that Bates has alot of experience in teaching web courses and he uses it to great effect in the book as a whole."

From the Back Cover
This book is about implementing websites on servers and on browsers. Rather than concentrate in fine detail upon specific technologies, Chris Bates has provided a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essentials of web development, covering an ever–expanding field in a single volume. Focusing on immediately useful code rather than theory, this is a how–to book for programmers who need quick answers.

Starting with client–side development using HTML and CSS, and moving on to more complex server–side applications written in open source languages such as Perl and PHP, the new edition of this successful textbook has been substantially revised and updated to include increased coverage of PHP and new sections on database design and configuration, Apache and MySQL. Based on years of successful teaching and taking an insightful, example–led approach, Web Programming is the complete all–in–one introduction to website programming and development, ideal for classroom use or self–study.

About the Author
Chris Bates has been teaching a web programming course for several years to a large and diverse group of students during which he has created and refined the examples and exercises used in the book.

Customer Reviews

Superb web development tips for users of all levels
I have read this book in the course of researching my final-year project at University. I was recommended it by my Project Tutor (one Chris Bates, funnily enough!!) and I have found it to be balanced, well-written and very informative. I have tended to use it to give me an overview of an area, then delved into the rather arcane O'Reilly books to get to the nasty technical stuff. Having been lectured by the author, I feel that he has leveraged all his teaching expertise and experience to produce a superb book which I recommend to anyone starting out in web design.

Good introduction book into web programming
I have found some sections in this book a real help and others not so helpful. Html,javascript,perl,cgi are well covered as the author goes into good detail with lots of examples but i was a little disappointed with some of the other areas of the book in particular the php section where he mostly justs shows the difference between php and perl the languages are similar but i think php should have been covered in more detail as it is growing and growing in use. This book will help you to get building websites using html,javascript and provides a solid platform using perl for cgi programming but is not the complete interent programming book and to the authors credit he does acknowledge this. So for some of the more advanced subject areas jsp,asp this book wont be the most useful resource to use.