Book details of 'The McGraw-Hill Internet Training Manual'

Title	The McGraw-Hill Internet Training Manual
Author(s)	Ronald L. Wagner, Eric Englemann, Eric Engelmann
ISBN	0070669376
Language	English
Published	February 1996
Publisher	Computing McGraw-Hill

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
This book is *not* a training manual, Internet or otherwise. In the broad spectrum of technical literature, it falls most closely under the category of short Internet guides, of which the better examples are Brendan Kehoe's "Zen and the Art of the Internet" (see reviews), and the second edition of Tracy LaQuey's "The Internet Companion" (see reviews). The text is not specifically a "business on the Internet" book, either. It does, though, definitely feel as if it were written by someone for whom business, and particularly marketing, is key, and any other consideration runs a very distant second. Part one is the general overview, with the usual pep talk, history, background, and warnings. Nothing is really wrong, but there is very little detail to get wrong. Part two is, I suppose, intended to be the "training" section. It consists of a series of very program- specific, keystroke-by-keystroke, hands-on "activities." Part three is kind of a catchall, including some material on HTML (HyperText Markup Language), Internet security (not *much* security), and online commerce. The reason that the book bulks large in comparison to a lot of the shorter guides lies in a lot of verbiage and wasted space. Why have pages of pointless pictures of computers connected by squiggly lines? Why thirty pages of lessons on how to use Windows for Workgroups? On the other hand, why try to cover the extremely important topic of Internet search engines in only twice as much space as is devoted to increasing the size of Netscape's cache? Why say that you won't cover the standard internet tools--and then cover them, anyway? (Why cover telnet, and then fail to give information on how to get a telnet client program?) For someone who is starting at the very beginning and is using Windows for Workgroups, Eudora Professional, and Netscape Navigator 3.0, this book provides enough information to get started. That does seem a limited audience and target, though. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997
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