IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development, Second Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
You wanna learn php/mysql then you can use this book, although it will help you greatly if you have working knowledge/exp. of RDBMS. (mysql here) and a bi of php.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein
Rating: 3/5
Title: Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Third Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Steven Feuerstein
Rating: 3/5
This is a very well written book, a must for any ORACLE PL/SQL Programmer. Along with the ORACLE Built-In Packages book, they both provide undocumented features and helpful examples.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 2/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 2/5
If you are already a programmer you will not find anything here that isn't already in the online documentation you can download.... After a number of chapters on "how to program," there is a virtual reprint of the function reference from the PHP web site. The Postgresql examples have mistakes in them. I think there were two things I actually got out of this book that I couldn't find in the online documentation.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 4/5
I have this book and only on chapter 3 but I have learned a ton. If you don't get what he is saying or you get an error just go to the website for the book and go to the forums and he will help you. There are a few errors in the book, but it is at the website, so if I get an error then I go to the errata section and normally it is in there. THis is a great book, do not pass this one by. If you are trying to learn PHP and MySQL get this book!
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 4/5
Title: Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Third Edition
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Ben Forta
Rating: 4/5
This little book serves as a great reference for novice to intermediate users. Also a good brief intro for beginners with the SQL syntax. The reason I gave 4 instead of 5 stars, was that author put the info and data for the table setup in the appendix. If you are a new user, you probably won't know that you are supposed to create these tables and then alter them with the constraints. It would have been nice to download the text from a website instead of typing all the data to insert.Other than that, a great book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Structured Query Language (Sql : a Practical Introduction)
Publisher: NCC Blackwell
Authors: Akeel I. Din
Rating: 5/5
Title: Structured Query Language (Sql : a Practical Introduction)
Publisher: NCC Blackwell
Authors: Akeel I. Din
Rating: 5/5
This book is very consice and goes right to the point. I love all the examples, definitely a teach by example book. I can't stop reading it!!! Is easy to understand and will have you creating your own databases is no time flat. There should be more books like this out there.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 5/5
Title: Beginning Php 4 (Programmer to Programmer)
Publisher: Peer Information
Authors: Chris Lea, Allan Kent, Ganesh Prasad, Chris Ullman
Rating: 5/5
I have bought or borrowed every book on PHP. I am very decent now - but could have saved a lot of money with this book - and the online PHP.net manual. Meaning - this book will get you going from ground zero - and the manual plus commentaries (commentaries are golden) are great. The cookbook has been my second treasure trove - it is a must buy once you get your chops underway.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 3/5
Title: Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson Education
Authors: Leon Atkinson
Rating: 3/5
I think this book has some great examples, and I think this book has a lot of breadth instead of depth. That's not a bad thing. I found it's higher level descriptions to be useful in learning php3.
I especially liked the last few chapters on good coding practices.
If I could have the author redo anything, it would be to expand on debugging, and to give a more detailed description of phpinfo(). Also, I really need an example of how to access HTTP_POST_VARIABLES when I'm using PHP3 for forms.
One major problem is the typo in all of the examples for mysql:
It says:
$mysql_link = mysql_connect(...);
$mysql_select_db(...);
and it should be:
$mysql_link = mysql_connect(...);
mysql_select_db(...);
mysql_select_db is a function, not a variable.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 System Administration Online Training Kit (It-Online Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr Rating: 5/5
Title: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 System Administration Online Training Kit (It-Online Training Kit)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr Rating: 5/5
I COULD STAY AWAKE!As a MCT I appriciate good training and in a nut shell this is it! It uses a very good training engine that has built-in presentations.All sections are easy to follow and very well thought out. They all have a presentaion window, most have a sim(all very good hands on), and have full audio to follow the instruction. When you fininsh a section your quized. Finish(?) you can use the practice test software included!This training follows the MOC training so close I broke out my trainers book and could follow section by section changing very little!Best part you can replay where the class you can't! So what's better $179 or $1079???As a Sr Systems Analyst and current MCP+I,MCSE+I,MCSD,MCT,CNE,VCE,HPSTAR I can tell you this one is well worth the money! I passed this exam after watching this ONE time and taking the included practice tests (yes they too are good). The sims do one thing good, teach you the right way to do things and give hands on without installing this beast on your system.Just have to wait it out for the Imp and Design Online Training Kit.Good Luck! One away form MCDBA...
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
Title: PHP and MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Authors: Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
Rating: 5/5
i got promoted in work. i knew nothing about PHP and had to learn fast.this book totally brought me up to speed and saved me from a lot of stress.i normally hate computer books as they are too dry or have too many errors. not this book, it really is very good.if you are new to PHP i highly recommend this book.
