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Essential Skills--Made Easy!

Get started programming in XML right away with help from this hands-on tutorial. XML: A Beginner's Guide explains how to store data in and retrieve data from XML documents, format data with Cascading Style Sheets, display data in Web browsers, and use Java and JavaScript. The book covers the latest innovations in XML, including Ajax, XHTML, XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, and the new XQuery specification. Now it's easier than ever to learn how to create your own XML solutions!

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• Annotated Syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

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A shocker
This book is a dreadful mix of repetitive, redundant code chunks and a strained chatty style of writing.It will leave most readers determined never to go near XML again.Indeed, nowhere in the book are reasons why you would wish to use it. But worse is that the book focuses on Internet Explorer exclusively, including Active-X and Microsoft's non-standard brand of the DOM.Under the aegis of XHTML Transitional it introduces beginners to the likes of the "popular" tag with all its long-deprecated attributes, not to mention many other deprecated tags, inline JavaScript event handlers, and other aspects more suited to the state of markup in 1999than to 2009 - the year of publication.

During the course of the book there is no signal to the reader that this or that code approach is proprietary and not standard.If beginners wish to learn standards-compliant, interoperable code and where and why you might want to deploy it, they should give this book a wide berth.

I'm sorry to have to write a negative review - rare for me.

Excellent for all levels of experience
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This is a quick project book with guided tutorial on how to create web pages of holavanda dot com. It provides an alternative to learning and understanding HTML and CSS where you will skip the lengthy theoretical explanation of HTML. Instead, you will be focusing on doing the hands-on tutorials. You will understand better with simple explanations on the specific areas on HTML and CSS at the end of each tutorial.

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Learn The Basics OfPHP & MySQL Programming Without A Brain Overload!

...”I Hate PHP” is for webmasters and designers who have always wondered what PHP could do for them; someone who wants to “do” some PHP and not outsource it. It is best to be familiar with HTML and writing / deciphering HTML code. You don’t need to be a top-notch “I do it all in Notepad” kinda person - just being able to open up a text editor and understand the code is enough. Copy / Paste knowledge is helpful too.

Unlike other PHP books on the market, we are not going to attempt to cover every single facet of the Wide World Of PHP Language. No, we want to grasp the basics of the language, get familiar with it, and get some real-life examples...not have the whole thing shoved down our throat!

You’ll find that throughout this book, my odd sense of humor may shine through a little bit. You might not find that web programming is the most exciting thing on the planet. Well, I don’t either, so I tried to make it interesting and easy to read.
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Waste of time and money (even if not that much money)
This is an absolute waste of time and money. This is good absolutely for nothing, they even go to the point of executing a select query against MySQL and then not going through the results. Plus, the Kindle formatting is awful!

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Dear friend,

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Also included within this guide a list of further resources, more sources of free learning and links to many PHP related information sites, whether you want to learn enough PHP to extend your own website or start a new career as a web developer, this guide is a fantastic first step.

By following the many examples included with each tutorial you will be guided through the development of several sample applications, at each stage we will review what you have learned and we present you with a small test to make sure you understand it.
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Book for the Kindle: Computer Programming 101: The Beginner's Starting Guide

WHAT IS COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?

If you have a personal computer, you have probably already used the software for word processing, to solve problems, or set up spreadsheets. We thought maybe you would be curious about how programmers write the software you have used.

A Program– is a set of instructions that tell the computer, step by step, how to perform the tasks you command it to, and produce the results you have in mind. There are three great reasons for learning computer programming:

• Programming will help you understand computers. The computer is a tool, and if you learn how to write simple programs, you will also learn how the computer works.

• After writing a few simple programs your confidence level will increase. There is a personal satisfaction in creating a program that will solve a problem.

• Learning basic programming will show you whether you like programming and possess an analytical mind, which is needed in computer programming. If it should become apparent that programming is not your cup of tea, you will find that an understanding of the programming process will increase your knowledge of the computer and your appreciation for the tasks that programmers and computers can perform.

Computer programming is a set of rules that tell a computer what operations the user needs it to perform, this is a programming language. There are many computer languages and they are listed later in this ebook.


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