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Title: New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML Third Edition - Comprehensive by Patrick Carey, Mary Kemper, Joan Carey ISBN: 0-619-10114-8 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 28 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $53.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: It's a technical textbook...what do you expect
Comment: I bought this book for a college-level course on HTML Programming. The text is fairly easy to follow and provides clear examples and "modules" to learn from. I didn't really need to take the class to learn. This book taught me more than my teacher did. If you read the text and attempt to do the activities as the book explains them, you learn quickly. Drawbacks...the book isn't as organized as some of the others in this series (New Perspectives) It's a little harder to look up a specific function. Advantages...like the other books in the series, it does a good job of preparing you to take the MOUS certification exams, or just to give yourself a basic knowledge of the subject. I would recommend this and the other books in the series.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent classroom resource
Comment: I had the pleasure of using this book in a upper-level web page design class. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. The following are a few comments on the glitch side of things:
1) On 2.24 there is a serious error. I think the authors switched "rock" and "links".
2) RGB triplets in decimal were introduced without sufficient background on p. 3.49.
3) Case 3 in Tutorial 4 was more of a chore than I think was useful. More on this later.
4) I'm left unclear about how the underlining occurs bottom p. 6.48-top p. 6.49. Presumably this has to be done by the HTML coder.
5) The expression "background-image:repeat-x" is wrong.
6) I think it might have been better to have initialized XDay's day and month the same way that its year was initialized, i.e., using "setDate()" and "setMonth()". Or the student could be encouraged to find an alternative to what was proposed in the text.
7) The dense array technique for population an array seems easier to grasp than the one offered on p. 8.36, although I am not objecting to the authors' way of populating that array. Again, the existence of alternatives could be underlined.
8) I didn't see any use made of the javascript roll-over, which seems a pity.
General observations:
1) The authors should have been more generous with their bibliographical material. There are some wonderful online tutorials which could have enriched the textbook.
There are also some wonderful historical materials about the internet to which students could have been refered.
2) The problems were imaginative, but too spoon-fed. I guess it's really up to the instructor to ask the students to put in their own text, etc. For the instructor, this makes checking to what extent a student did his own work well-nigh impossible.
I plan to use this book next time I teach this class, but will have learned how to work around some of its weaknesses. It is, however, far and away the best book I have seen for a classroom situation. Patrick Carey et al. are to be congratulated.
Rating: 5
Summary: Practical-Excellent for Self Study
Comment: This is a practical self study book. The author" Patrick Carey"
takes you step by step to learn the proper HTML syntax. Each chapter is full of hands on examples. The first 6 chapters are
designated to HTML, and 1 chapter about Cascade style sheet, which covers almost all CSS1 and CSS2. The author teaches you the basics, and then moves you to more advance topics. There are also 2 chapters geared to Java script. The book is a solid gold book, I recommend it to any one that has no knowledge of HTML and wants to learn it 1 step at a time, you'll also learn CSS which will take your web site into a higher stage. You'll learn some Javascript as well to make your web site Dynamic. I wanted to put 10 stars for the book, but there were only 5 available!
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Title: Planning and Designing Effective Websites: With Web Workshop CD by Sue A. Conger, Richard O. Mason, W. T. Mason ISBN: 0760049882 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 06 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX - Illustrated Introductory by Sherry Bishop ISBN: 0619110929 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Principles of Web Design, Second Edition by Joel Sklar ISBN: 061906451X Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.95 |
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Title: New Perspectives on Microsoft FrontPage 2002-Comprehensive by Jessica Evans ISBN: 0619044640 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 24 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $53.95 |
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Title: Electronic Commerce, Fourth Edition by Gary P., Ph.D. Schneider, Gary P. Schneider ISBN: 0619159553 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 19 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $58.95 |
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