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Teach Yourself® HTML 4
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Author: Stephanie Cottrell Bryant
List Price: $29.99
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ISBN: 0764575120
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (10 September, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 400,212
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
So many errors it's unworkable
I purchased this book to start learning HTML. While there appears to be a lot of information here, I found so many errors and omissions that I gave up after 115 pages. I just couldn't follow the examples, and found the page layout to be too confusing. The index didn't help much either - often pointing to a term used only once in the book without any further explanation. I bought a different book (by Laura Lemay) and have had much more success with the Lemay book.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Practical Learning
Yes, it seems disjointed at times and has several spelling errors. However, for beginners like myself I have learnt that the best learning books for computer Newbies comprise of plenty of page graphics (close to 50% of content in this one) and practice exercises(end of every chapter !). Cottrell's book achieves both well enough. Most computer books do not, atleast for HTML learning that I have examined. Cottrell's book urges you to complete end of chapter questions with answers at the back for critical comprehension checking. It secondly includes a working case study exercise at the end of each chapter e.g, Chapter 4 p.67 on Tables - Shows a case study homepage and asks : 'What are the design issues with this page ? How did the author create it ? Identify each table, and any special formatting you see in the table.(Hint: there are nested tables on this page.) When you're done, go to [specified website address] and view the source code.' Gives her answer at the back of the book too. I would have liked to have seen MORE practice exercises... but this book has been great to check my understanding as a newbie. Nice work.-Spiro Raftopoulos spiromlb@ozemail.com.au
Rating: 2 out of 5
Fire the editor
This is one of the worst editing jobs I have ever seen in published material. There is sometimes no continuity, incomplete sentences, no follow on explanations; just a poorly written and poorly edited book. You can learn a little about HTML, but it's a lot of work
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