Internet and World Wide Web How to Program, 4e  by market leading authors, Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel introduces readers with little or no programming experience to the exciting world of Web-Based applications.  This book has been substantially revised to reflect today's Web 2.0 rich Internet application-development methodologies.  A comprehensive book that covers the fundamentals needed to program on the Internet, this book provides in-depth coverage of introductory programmming principles, various markup languages (XHTML, Dynamic HTML and XML), several scripting languages (JavaScript, PHP, Ruby/Ruby on Rails and Perl); AJAX, web services, Web Servers (IIS and Apache) and relational databases (MySQL/Apache Derby/Java DB) -- all the skills and tools needed to create dynamic Web-based applications.  The book contains comprehensive introductions to ASP.NET 2.0 and JavaServer Faces (JSF) and a new chapter on Adobe Flex 2.0.  Hundreds of live-code examples of real applications are throughout the book.  The examples are downloadable from the Deitel website once registered and logged in and allow readers to run the applications and see and hear the outputs.  The book provides instruction on building Ajax-enabled rich Internet applications that enhance the presentation of online content and give web applications the look and feel of desktop applications.  The chapter on Web 2.0 and Internet business exposes readers to a wide range of other topics associated with Web 2.0 applications and businesses  After mastering the material in this book, readers will be well prepared to build real-world, industrial strength, Web-based applications. For Internet and Web-based computer programmers, and others in organizations and businesses who need to develop their own Websites and pages.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 11 Ratings

Wide Range of Topics Covered but Overpriced - 2008-12-27
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Your better off buying books specific to the technology your trying to learn. You'll get more details. This book offers a wide range of topics but doesn't go into necessary details for each one. Hard read also and expensive. This was a required book for a college course.

Poor text book - 2008-10-14
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This book falls into the category of text books written where the writers don't know how to write one. This book is our text at the College of San Mateo in California and it fails to state what needs to be learned in a concise manner. As an example chapter 9 is titled JavaScript: Functions, I would expect that there would be a list of the functions introduced along with the proper syntax, but there is none. Chapter 5 is Cascading Style Sheets but does not have a section or clear reference on how to call an external sheet... not even in the index. Skip this book and consider "JavaScript the definitive guide" by O'reilly and "HTML,XHTML & CSS Visual Quickstart Guide" by Elizabeth Castro. You will be much better served by those two books.

Well presented book - 2009-04-05
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I liked how the book presented each chapter and ideas. I think that the deitel book line is very good for novice and more advanced users.

A good book for Web Developer starters - 2008-12-31
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Purchased this book last semester for my web class and will be using it the next semester as well. So far, I'm done half way with it and I can say that it is thorough and concise with solid examples. Every chapter has examples where a web student will find helpful in learning. I understand that web development is a broad field and it is impossible to cover everything in one single book, but Deitel does a good job on it.

A few negative factors about it would include the fact that the practice review questions do not have answers to it, so how can a student know what he/she answered is correct or not? He/she is not learning anything that way. The other reason is this book focuses too much on Java Script features such as splitting a string or fancy features such as highlighting a node in HTML DOM while it has less information on Server Side Scripting programming. An improvement could be made to make the examples be based on something realistic that programmers often use to help new students learn.

My final verdict is that this book is definitely recommended for novice programmers to get a basic understanding and a good grasp of concepts/terminology. For advanced programmers who want to drill into the details of each particular web element, they should go find another book.

Better than most computer textbooks - 2008-08-12
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It seems that computer texts are often quite confusing and poorly written. This one is for the most part much clearer, and does not usually assume the reader has knowledge of additional subjects without mentioning this fact.

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