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Created by leading corporate trainers Deitel & Associates, this hands-on, interactive Python training course combines Python training CD-ROM, The Python Multimedia Cyber Classroom CD-ROM, and the leading Python textbook, Python How to Program. You'll start with basic programs and syntax, then learn CGI programming, object-oriented techniques, GUIs, exception handling, regular expressions, XML programming, DB-API database integration, networking, security -- even wireless application development. With this unique combination of live code, audio commentary, and in-depth printed and online explanations, you'll master Python development faster than you ever thought possible!
Created by leading corporate trainers Deitel & Associates, this hands-on, interactive training course combines Visual Basic .NET training CD-ROM, The Visual Basic .NET Multimedia Cyber Classroom, and the leading Visual Basic .NET textbook, Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2nd Edition. You'll start with an overview of Microsoft's .NET platform and how Visual Basic .NET fits into it -- then master syntax, objects, classes, inheritance, events, delegates, exceptions, WebForms, Web Services, WinForms, and much more. With its unique combination of live code, expert audio commentary, and in-depth online and printed explanations, this package will help you master Visual Basic .NET development faster than you ever thought possible!
Created by leading authors and corporate trainers Deitel & Associates, this hands-on, interactive training course combines the world's #1 C# training CD-ROM, The C# Multimedia Cyber Classroom, and the leading C# textbook, C# How to Program. Start with an overview of object-oriented programming with C#; then learn GUI development, ADO.NET database access, ASP.NET WebForms and Web Services; networking, security, data structures, assemblies, performance tuning, and more. With this unique combination of expert audio commentary, thousands of lines of fully-tested sample C# program code, a print AND electronic version of an outstanding C# textbook, full-text searching, hyperlinking and more, you'll master C# development faster than you ever thought possible!
There's never been a more powerful, effective way to master wireless Internet and mobile commerce development! Created by leading corporate trainers Deitel & Associates, this hands-on, interactive training course combines the world's #1 interactive wireless development training CD-ROM, and the 1,400-page wireless and mobile programming textbook used at universities worldwide, Wireless Internet and & Mobile Business How to Program—in both print and searchable electronic versions. It delivers more than 9 hours of audio, hundreds of hands-on exercises, 11,000+ lines of code—all designed to work together, taking you from the fundamentals to sophisticated wireless application development, fast!
This hands-on, interactive course brings together the world's #1 interactive Web development training CD-ROM, Internet & World Wide Web Programming Multimedia Cyber Classroom, and the outstanding 1,400-page book, Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, Second Edition. Start with XHTML and the basics of Web page coding; then master JavaScript, interactive Web development with DHTML, server-side programming, database integration, and more. You'll find up-to-the-minute coverage of today's hottest technologies —including ASP, XML, XHTML, Servlets, JSP, even the Wireless Markup Language (WML). Get it—and become a master Web developer faster than you ever imagined!
There's never been a more powerful, effective way to master Java 2 programming! Created by leading corporate trainers Deitel & Associates, this hands-on course combines the world's #1 interactive Java training CD-ROM, The Java Multimedia Cyber Classroom, and the Java textbook used at universities worldwide, Java How to Program. It integrates 19 1/2 hours of audio, 250+ hands-on exercises, 25,576+ lines of code, a 1500-page e-book, and more—all designed to take you from the fundamentals of Java and object-oriented programming to sophisticated networking and GUI development.
Learn Perl and CGI programming hands-on, with the world's #1 interactive Perl training course! This course features the Perl Multimedia Cyber Classroom—award-winning interactive training from the world's leading corporate trainers, Deitel & Associates! On the CD, you'll find 12+ hours of audio, hundreds of programming exercises, and 10,000+ lines of tested, working code in over 250 working programs. You'll also get the Deitels' best-selling introductory book Perl How to Program—in printed and searchable electronic versions!
The Complete XML Training Course brings together the fully interactive, multimedia XML tutorial on CD-ROM and the world's leading introductory XML textbook, in one end-to-end, fully-integrated training system! The CD-ROM uses the Deitels' trademarked LIVE-CODE approach, presenting more than 250 complete XML pages and applications, supported and explained with more than 12 hours of expert audio commentary. You'll find hundreds of interactive self-review questions and programming exercises; thousands of hyperlinked index entries to a complete electronic copy of XML How to Program; plus a bonus second CD-ROM packed with XML tools and examples.
Master e-Business and e-Commerce development hands-on with the interactive training Multimedia Cyber Classroom CD-ROM. Comprehensive coverage of e-Business and e-Commerce programming, including JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, ASP, XML, Perl/CGI, and important e-commerce paradigms, including shopping carts, auctions, name-your-price, and others. Includes the #1 e-Business and e-Commerce textbook, e Business & e-Commerce, How to Program, in print and on CD-ROM. 14,000+ lines of live code, 10+ hours of expert audio annotations, hundreds of programming exercises, practice exams, and more!
The Complete C++ Training Course, Third Edition offers start-to-finish C++ training that's hands-on, interactive, up-to-the-minute —and fun! This package brings together the world's #1 interactive C++ training CD-ROM, the C++ Multimedia Cyber Classroom, Third Edition, and the leading introductory C++ textbook,C++ How to Program, Third Edition—both totally revised to reflect the latest ANSI C++ and STL standards and techniques. You'll find 12,000 lines of live code, 12+ hours of expert audio commentary illuminating every aspect of C++, and hundreds of exercises and tips for building robust, high-performance code. Coverage includes: control structures, functions, arrays, pointers and strings, classes, data abstraction, operator overloading, inheritance, virtual functions, polymorphism, I/O, templates, exception handling, file processing, data structures, bits, characters, strings, structures, preprocessing, upgrading C legacy code, and more. There's even a new, 8-chapter UML case study introducing all the basics of object analysis and design!
The Complete Visual Basic 6 Training Course combines world-class interactive multimedia and an extraordinarily practical, thorough book. The Visual Basic 6 Multimedia Cyber Classroom delivers comprehensive interactive training on every VB concept you need to know. It contains over 6 hours of detailed audio descriptions, hundreds of complete VB6 programs with over thousands of lines of fully-tested live code, hundreds of interactive self-review questions and programming exercises, full-text searching, hyperlinking, and many other extensive interactivity features! The Visual Basic 6 How to Program book is a great new guide to VB6 programming and the VB6 development environment. Master control structures, procedures, functions, arrays, string processing and basic graphics. Discover VB6's powerful tools for GUI development and debugging. Even learn COM/DCOM techniques for distributed Web and network development!
Now, there's a complete multimedia course for aspiring Internet professionals seeking to master Web design or fine-tune their skills. Endorsed by the World Organization of Webmasters, and mapped to WOW's detailed Web design curriculum, it covers the "mechanics" of Web design and the effective design, interface, and navigation practices that might otherwise take years to learn. You'll find interactive, hands-on coverage of all HTML basics, including tables, frames, and forms; as well as advanced topics such as server-side includes, restricting Web site access, and HTML 4.0 style sheets. The multimedia CD-ROM contains 6+ hours of expert audio walkthroughs, an extensive HTML code library, animations, interactive questions, exercises, and more. You also get the best-selling book Designing Web Interfaces, in both printed and electronic form”plus a complete bonus e-book: Understanding Web Development.
The Complete Web Server Training Course teaches you every skill you'll need, hands-on, through powerful browser-based training software, expert audio commentary, animations, step-by-step simulation, and more—and you don't even need your own Web server! Through interactive training led by two expert Web administrators and teachers, you'll master Web site planning, deployment, and management. Understand what Web servers do, and plan a real-world server deployment, choosing hardware and software, projecting traffic, and more. Register your domain name, organize your site, configure your server, and integrate it with databases. Then, walk through the basics of server maintenance; and secure your site, your server, your network resources, clients, Web databases, even eCommerce transactions. The package includes The Web Server Multimedia Cyber Classroom, the #1 interactive Web administration training CD-ROM, plus two fully searchable e-books, and a companion Web site with even more resources. Endorsed by the World Organization of Webmasters!
Now you can learn UML from the original designers: Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson! This training course includes the UML Multimedia Cyber Classroom CD-ROM, plus Rumbaugh, Jacobson and Booch's masterful The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual.
In this multimedia-and-book training course, Douglas E. Comer, the world's #1 TCP/IP expert, teaches all you need to know about TCP/IP, from the basics to the cutting edge! Master TCP/IP internetworking and routing from the ground up”including every key Internet protocol. You get the interactive, browser-based TCP/IP Multimedia Cyber Classroom training CD-ROM, with hours of expert audio commentary, hundreds of video animations, hands-on practice exercises, and more”all designed to help you master TCP/IP fast! You also get print and electronic versions of the best-selling Internetworking with TCP/IP, 4th Edition, by Douglas E. Comer”the newest edition of the TCP/IP book that's earned raves from virtually every leader of the Internet. Comer begins with a detailed explanation of how physical networks are connected into internets; and an introduction to Internet addressing, routing, subnets, and supernets. Next, understand UDP and TCP; key routing protocols such as RIP and OSPF; Internet multicasting with IGMP; and more. Comer explains client-server interaction and socket interfaces; DNS and DHCP; and key Internet applications such as FTP, NFS, MIME, SMTP, and SNMP. You'll find a detailed introduction to Internet security, firewall design, and VPNs”and even an insightful preview of tomorrow's IPng and IPv6 protocols.

Now you can learn SQL hands-on—and get the business information you need, faster than you ever imagined! No matter what database you use, you'll master ANSI standard SQL by practicing with hundreds of live queries and exercises—and learning from hours of animations and audio commentary by two world-renowned database consultants! This package brings together the industry's #1 interactive SQL training CD-ROM, The SQL Multimedia Cyber Classroom, with the world's best SQL book for business professionals, SQL Queries for Mere Mortals—provided in both hard copy and electronic format. Working with over 300 practice queries and five real-world sample databases, you'll master every business SQL skill you need: grouping, totaling, summaries, modifying databases, integrating data from multiple tables”even advanced, high-performance SQL techniques. Test your knowledge with 100+ interactive multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions; gain insight from hours of audio commentary by expert database consultants; and more. Full of plain-English guidance and useful examples, the SQL Multimedia Cyber Classroom is the fastest way to achieve real business results with SQL.

Master Linux shell programming, hands-on, with an awesome multimedia-and-book training course created by two of the industry's leading experts, Ellie Quigley and Scott Hawkins. They'll walk you through hundreds of code examples and 50 real-world shell scripts that show you exactly how to automate a wide variety of system administration tasks, and carry you from the basics to expert-level skills. You'll get The Linux Shell Programming Multimedia Cyber Classroom, a start-to-finish multimedia CD-ROM containing over eight hours of audio commentary, hundreds of interactive questions and exercises, and 40 animated diagrams. You'll also get a printed and electronic copy of the #1 bestseller Linux Shells by Example, by Ellie Quigley, Silicon Valley's leading shell programming instructor. Along the way, you'll discover what Linux shells are, what they do, and how they integrate with other Linux utilities and processes; master creating, running, and debugging shell scripts; understand the kernel-shell relationship, system calls, redirection and pipes, loops, and much more.