If you work with children of any age, this volume is the perfect guide for teaching the Internet. It is packed with activities and is organized in a very easy-to-follow format. It also includes snapshot illustrations to walk you through the various sample web searches/activities. The grade levels for the activities are indicated making it easy for you to pick the appropriate age-level activity. Highly recommended for public librarians (children's & young adult), teachers, homeschoolers.

Connecting Kids and the Web is a valuable new resource for children as well as adults. All chapters are well written and provide valuable information. The author translates usually intimidating computer jargon into easy-to-understand English. The step-by-step instructions will make even the novice comfortable navigating web sites. The numerous new resources and information provided in this book is beneficial from academia to at-home entertainment. The CD-ROM that's included is an added bonus! The variety found in this handbook, along with the simplicity of use, will prove helpful to children and adults of all ages. This book will be an added mainstay next to my computer.

This book has more errors than should ever be allowed in a professional product. There are typo's in both text and examples. The CD does not contain the source code from the book and I vote this the worst source ever of any computer based information I have found to date. It has left me very unsure of the publishers (QUE) standards and I may never purchase another QUE book again. I simply do not trust them. Spend your hard earned money on a different choice

"Special Edition Using Java, Second Edition" is an excellent reference to JDK 1.0.2. However, today (April 15), only a month and a half after being billed as "Computer Programming Expert Editor's Recommended Book, 03/01/97", it is a dated reference and the cover claims of JDK 1.1 coverage fall short--they are preliminary and peripheral to primary Java programming topics. For example, there is no coverage of the major changes in the Java event model of JDK 1.1, which permeate almost every application. I recommend waiting for better JDK 1.1 coverage, hopefully in Joseph Weber's new version, "Special Edition Using Java 1.1" which has not yet been released, but for which Amazon is taking orders today

This book is nothing if not large. This was QUEs attempt to capture the entire spectrum of JAVA and make it easy to understand (a task that they accomplished) but then the standards changed again. This is still a great book for learning Java; but, you will have to move on to other resources for news on the updates

This is not my review; but I have consciously read this book (chapters 1,2,3,4,5) for preparing my thesis, and I was thinking about the translation (from English to Spanish)of this book.