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Web Programming in Python: Techniques for Integrating Linux, Apache and MySQL
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Author: George K. Thiruvathukal, Thomas W. Christopher, John P. Shafaee
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 0130410659
Publisher: Prentice Hall (15 October, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 165,059
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Where are they now?
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 out of 5
very broad but very effective
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.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent book!
One of the best books around on web programming. A must-read for any programmer trying to build e-commerce applications.
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