Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a Week: With CDROM

The amount of snotty, degrading comments on this book can only lead me to believe that the authors were not able to grasp the simplest of instructions and are taking their anger out on this book.Quite simply, this is an INCREDIBLE book; well-written, funny, and comprehensive. Not only do you learn about CGI, you also learn Perl, SSI, some nice HTML tricks and lots of information about web servers.The CD includes full websites, tons of scripts, and lots of basic programs you'll need if you plan to set up your own server.GET THIS BOOK! You won't regret it. *Unless you're too dense to read simple english...*

This book by Eric Herrmann, is the best toturial book I've ever read. Not only does Eric's humor turn out to be fantastic throughout the book (for me thats the positive sides to reading). I was a newbie to PERL and CGI-scripting, and after reading his book (In under a week!!! - comment to other reviewers) I found myself programming CGI-scripts. So this book I would recommend to other fellow student arround the world who is willingly to read a fun and interresting book. Perhaps other reader's seem to forget that the book is for newbies, and not for experienced programmers (hence the word "teach yourself" which is my oppinion reaches out for non-experienced programmers!). Hope you write more like this, and don't let some readers go to your head!...

This has to be the best computer reference I've ever read - if nothing else it is also a good reference to look back on. I read it almost two years ago, and still turn to it whenever I run into a problem. Everyone runs into errors every once in awhile, so even the Perl expert would enjoy this book. My only problem: For people with busy schedules, you may not have time to let approximately 40 pages sink in a day. Read it over two weeks for maximum enjoyment and knowledge retention.

I love this book! I had a little programming and UNIX experience. This book taught me how to setup my web server, program and setup my scripts, and how to restrict user access to my scripts. With just a week of reading the book, I've written chat rooms, message boards, search engines, and many other scripts, mostly from the knowledge I got from this book and a little from other sources. You have to be flexible and skip over the parts you don't need, there are some things that are there "just in case". It works great as a reference too!

Recently, after examining a number of CGI/Perl type books, I purchased a wonderful instructional book titled,"Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl in a Week" by Eric Herrman. I had no prior experience with CGI or Perl, but had gained an interest in the subject after talking to several friends at my work place. After reading this book, I have written several CGI scripts that are currently being used in my department. This book is organized into seven lessons that correspond to the seven days of the week. I found day one (the introduction) to be a little technical and over my head, but the author explained that this information would be covered in detail in the Chapters to follow. Once I made it to day two I was on the road to becoming a CGI script programmer. The Author makes excellent use of visuals andworking programs to explain how Web Pages interact with CGI Scripts and then back to the Web. The author explained that he chose Perl as the language for writing the CGI scripts because it works well with UNIX environments, but the scripts could be written in a number of languages. Upon completion of this book I felt very comfortable with Perl as a primary programming language and would highly suggest this book to anyone that is interested in programming with the Web. My only suggestion to anyone that is considering to purchase this book is that unless they have a lot of spare time, be prepared to spend more than one week to complete this book. I read this book in my leisure after work and I estimate that it took me two weeks to complete the reading and feel confident in my knowledge.