Some of the advanced programs include an interactive chess game and a geometric star quilt . Both require sophisticated mathematical and software algorithms.
More basic programs allow easy entry into the required skill for CGI programming and debugging.
The author, Mark Felton, is in charge of a large international facility that exists behind a corporate firewall. In addition to being a senior programmer for wide band network applications, he is a member of the Mathematical Association of America and is the registered agent for Alpha Institute , a non-profit 501C that provides technical support to various groups. While it is not the intent of this book to provide cut and paste code, but rather to drive programmers into their own creative capabilities, code from the book can be downloaded . This simple program demonstrates the ability to read server information from a CGI program. You can email yourself to see that it works.