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  3. February 2008

RE: Web Front End Advice

Exactly Bruce! That's why for most I suggest starting with APIs.. it
"forces" you to learn what's actually going on. Of course, I don't make
suggestions without a brief high level interview of the skills
in the shop.

Using that logic (which I agree with, by the way), I wonder why you
don't teach how to do it WITHOUT the CGI APIs? i.e use the regular
envvar APIs, write stdin/stdout using the standard C APIs, and do URL
decoding manually.

That's how I learned.

Well, the hardest thing when teaching a subject (which I'm sure you know) is
finding the least common denominator in which to start. So I chose the CGI
APIs. I could have prefaced my books/articles with "APIs 101" but then how
far back do I keep going? :) If we don't stop we would end pack up with
assembler or punchcards.. haha.. (btw, I enjoyed assembler classes too...)

Brad
www.bvstools.com


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