Best web programming book for stand alone application guy?

This new book from O'Reilly would be great for you Head First Web Design.

This new book from O'Reilly would be great for you. Head First Web Design. Great content and a fun read.

As JavaScript is omnipresent these days I'd recommend "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford. It made JS much clearer for me and also serves as a handy reference book (easy to carry around with only ~150 pages :).

The Pragmatic Programmer: amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeym... whilst not web orientated it is certainly worth a read.

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G'day, I liked "CGI Programming with Perl" (sanitised Amazon link) when I was starting out. HTH cheers.

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