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Title: Web Programming in Python: Techniques for Integrating Linux, Apache and MySQL by George K. Thiruvathukal, Thomas W. Christopher, John P. Shafaee ISBN: 0-13-041065-9 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Surprising breadth well explained
Comment: This book covers everything about getting a web application together. If you accept the Python Way, (a wise idea I think) you could look at the book as an attempted successor to Lincoln Stein's original compendium about how to serve web applications from top to bottom.
If you're a person who knows something about programming in general but not enough about programming for the web in specific, this book is just the thing to help you identify and fill in the gaps.
I do have a complaint that the writing could have been a bit smoother and the editing a bit more careful.
A far more serious flaw, though, is the authors' failure to keep the software framework on which the book is based up-to-date. The upshot is that while the book is very informative, it's unfortunately quite a slog getting the examples working.
While I recommend the book for its explanatory power, unfortunately it doesn't provide a direct path to getting your project online. If the framework were better maintained and documented, this could still turn out to be the only book you need.
Rating: 2
Summary: Where are they now?
Comment: This books was a major disappointment. The ideas seem pretty solid, but the book no longer matches the code that is available online. The downloads are a mess. The book says to install slither using the instructions in the download, but there are no instructions in the download. Two users posted requests over a year ago for these instructions and the requests were totally ignored. In fact not much has happened over the past year. It really seems as if the authors have moved on. Slither seems to be dead.
On another note - this book is very academic. For example, there is a couple of pages of discussion about the different theorectical ways to design databases. But my needs are so simple, that I already knew I was going to use MySQL, so I just did not care about this discussion. Unfortunately there are lots of discussions like that in this book. So if you just wanna get something done fast, this might not be the book for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: very broad but very effective
Comment: This book is surprising in its breadth of coverage (Python basics,
Python advanced topics, MySQL, Apache/CGI and net infrastructure) and
the depth of coverage of each. It is a great single reference for
coming up to speed on each aspect such that you could actually
implement a medium-sized web application based largely on
just what is in the book. For those that are already familiar with
any of these topics, that chapter can easily be skipped. This book
is not for the complete beginner though as it would be impossible
to cover so much ground if it were written with the Dummies mindset.
Overall, it does a very good job explaining subtle points that an
experienced programmer would want to know as they attempted to
implement a first application with these technologies. Good job.
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Title: Python Web Programming by Steve Holden ISBN: 0735710902 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Zope: Web Application Development and Content Management by Steve Spicklemire, Kevin Friedly, Jerry Spicklemire, Kim Brand ISBN: 0735711100 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 12 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Zope Bible by Michael Bernstein, Scott Robertson ISBN: 0764548573 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 05 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Python & XML by Christopher A. Jones, Fred L. Jr. Drake ISBN: 0596001282 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Zope Book by Amos Latteier, Michel Pelletier ISBN: 0735711372 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 17 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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