RE: Web Front End Advice

["Bradley V. Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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
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