It's required for the course.
Like many required textbooks it is overpriced and there are better books available. It's still cheaper here than most other outlets and it does provide one more reference to turn to.
School book required
This book was required for an online summer course. Material in book covered what was expected from the teacher.
Possibly the worst textbook of all...
Unless you are wanting to be completely confused and write poor HTML, don't buy this book. I have used the 2nd edition (same author) and a friend's 3rd edition. They have so many typo's in the code that some of it doesn't work. E.g., It doesn't always "quote" the attribute values in HTML coding tags as you are supposed to. 3rd edition, Tutorial-4, Case-1, gives step-by-step instructions to create the example web page, but with code that does Not exist! What is this code: < td width="200" bgcolor="back4.jpg" > ?? Is it for the background color or an image? Which is it!? It can't be both!
So in closing, this book is extremely poor and confusing. Please ask your school to quit buying this series of programming books.
If you want to learn competant HTML quickly and learn it well, use the free online tutorials from www . w3schools . com. Because this group of people created HTML and there are sure to be no errors.
It's a technical textbook...what do you expect
I bought this book for a college-level course on HTML Programming. The text is fairly easy to follow and provides clear examples and "modules" to learn from. I didn't really need to take the class to learn. This book taught me more than my teacher did. If you read the text and attempt to do the activities as the book explains them, you learn quickly. Drawbacks...the book isn't as organized as some of the others in this series (New Perspectives) It's a little harder to look up a specific function. Advantages...like the other books in the series, it does a good job of preparing you to take the MOUS certification exams, or just to give yourself a basic knowledge of the subject. I would recommend this and the other books in the series.
It's a technical textbook...what do you expect
I bought this book for a college-level course on HTML Programming. The text is fairly easy to follow and provides clear examples and "modules" to learn from. I didn't really need to take the class to learn. This book taught me more than my teacher did. If you read the text and attempt to do the activities as the book explains them, you learn quickly. Drawbacks...the book isn't as organized as some of the others in this series (New Perspectives) It's a little harder to look up a specific function. Advantages...like the other books in the series, it does a good job of preparing you to take the MOUS certification exams, or just to give yourself a basic knowledge of the subject. I would recommend this and the other books in the series.
