PHP for the World Wide Web, Third Edition
On May - 2 - 20105 COMMENTS
- ISBN13: 9780321442499
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
With PHP for the World Wide Web, Third Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users this popular open-source scripting language. Leading technology author Larry Ullman guides readers th… More >>
considering this book came from 15 miles from me it took 2 weeks to get
Rating: 3 / 5
Being a little new to programming, I thought this book was for me. However, I was dissapointed. I have a good working knowledge of HTML… I had to refer to various other sources to learn…
Definitely not for beginners… Also the layout of text is just too complicated.
Rating: 3 / 5
I reviewed this book as a text possibility for my Basic Web Programming course at The Lifelong Learning Center in Missoula, Montana. My students are people off the street – not CS students – who have day jobs in areas like heating and cooling, local government, sole proprietor businesses, graphic art, etc (all across the board.) If I were to teach this course like a CS course, these folks would never come back.
So, I needed a textbook that explains absolutely EVERYTHING, repeatedly. And I needed a textbook that would refer new skills back to previous material. My students aren’t going to “get” the full meaning of any principle in one explanation. This book explains the little pieces and nuances that were a total mystery to me, when I was a CS student. Of course, as a CS student you are supposed to be very smart and just naturally understand everything without explanation or review, but that won’t work in Adult Education.
Some Features that Make the Book User-friendly
- I like the fact that the code is shown in entirety and then also in pieces. This is a design feature that makes the book usable in my classroom situation.
- The explanation of principles is placed in Tips and boxes. In the design principle of “proximity,” that means that the tips are right there, next to the relevant material. However, by pulling them out, they are easy to find, if the reader isn’t going through the exercise. Neither does the extra instruction stop the flow of following the material.
Rating: 5 / 5
I borrowed this one from the library, and ended up purchasing a copy. This volume is even more useful and readable to me than the PHP for Dummies book!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a very good book for those who take their first steps into PHP.
Intermediate and advanced users should buy something else.
Rating: 5 / 5