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I took a class, over summer semester, called “Internet Programming.”  Though I’ve been doing this web thing for over a decade and I’ve worked with a million different technologies & codes, I still feel that there are a lot of holes in my skill set.  It’s not enough, to me, to “have worked with” or to “know” php, javascript, etc.  I want to know them from the ground up and code them, from scratch, as well as I do XHTML.

In any case, I was skeptical of the class at first – particularly of the book chosen by the professor – Deitel’s Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program.  However, in the last week of this course (with 100% straight across the board, I might add), I have to give this book a hearty recommendation.  It’s a nice overview of all the different parts of today’s web – from understanding web 2.0 to AJAX to SQL & databases.  There’s a few chapters we didn’t cover during the summer course, and I’ll certainly hold on to this book as reference, as well as to go over the chapters that weren’t covered, on my own time.