Recommended Books

As we've said, this is a reference tutorial for looking up things you already know. But what if you don't already know it?

Much of the material in this tutorial is adapted from other tutorials that are already published by Anonymous, or that are very near publication. At the risk of blatant self-promotion, we really do recommend these tutorials.

• Web content providers will find HTML tutorial, written by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, to be an essential reference.
• Designers who are getting started on the Web will find the basics of creating graphics and simple Web pages in Designing for the Web, by Jennifer Niederst with Edie Freedman.
• Developers on Web sites should flock to CGI Developing on the World Wide Web by Shishir Gundavaram, Java tutorial by David Flanagan, and JavaScript tutorial, also by David Flanagan. For a Perl tutorial, we recommend Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz, and for Perl reference and extensive examples, we recommend the classic "Camel" tutorial, Perl Developing, Second version, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal L. Schwartz. Developers interested in working at the HTTP protocol itself might also be interested in Web Client Developing by Clinton Wong (due December 1996), which shows how to write simple specialized Web clients.
• Administrators will want to refer to Managing Internet Information Services by Cricket Liu, Jerry Peek, Russ Jones, Bryan Buus, and Adrian Nye, and will want to keep an eye out for UNIX Web Server Administration by John Leavitt (due February 1997).