Laura Lemay

I'm sorry. This isn't a bad book. It's actually a good resource. It's just that I've read several similar books, and while this one is comprehensive, it's also mind numbingly dull and I can't bring myself to get through it and finish it. I dread opening it and reading it. And that's just a waste of time and money. Others might find it very helpful though, so I speak only for myself. Not recommended, as I think there are numerous other books out there on the same topics that are better.

This is my habitual resource for the subset of Perl that I use most. It is a well organized instruction book that also serves nicely as a reference. I'll need to have my copy hard-bound before long. I highly recommend it for newcomers to this important programming language. Oriented towards sophisticated manipulation of strings (text), this language should appeal to everyone on The Library Thing. If printf() alone would make the C language worth learning, regular expressions do likewise for show more Perl. show less

A good, comprehensive guide for beginner level CSS and HTML. the HTML sections are very basic and really anybody could understand them. The CSS sections are a bit outdated in my opinion because they are teaching CSS using internal stylesheets rather than linking to external sheets, but nonetheless it's a great beginners book to learn how to use CSS.

My copy is a little dated, but still a very good introduction to the basics of HTML. I use it all the time for work.