Programming Bots, Spiders, and Intelligent Agents in Microsoft Visual C++ [With *]

by David Pallmann

Book Overview

Programming Bots, Spiders, and Intelligent Agents in Microsoft Visual C++ showcases the basics of creating autonomous Internet programs such as bots and agents. Besides offering an introduction to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735605653
• ISBN13: 9780735605657
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 679 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great for Getting Started

Easy to read and informative. The jewel in this book is the source code for the objects that are ready to use right out of the box. If you need to put together an application that mines information from the internet really quickly, this is the book. This book is about retrieving and parsing http, (port 80) only.

Good informative book

Good book- but not exactly for the beginner. I would reccomend this book for the C++ seasoned. This book mainly covers how to use the classes included with the book to implement site crawling, etc. The classes included on the CD are great. Good buy!

GREAT BOOK for the Novice

I found this book to be extremely useful and insightful into a topic that I had previously only been briefly exposed to. I personally don't care about the details of some of the underlying protocols put to use, and just enjoy the fact that it was written for those of us who are using Visual C++ 6.0! The book is very clear and easy to understand. Many thanks goes out to the author for all his time and effort spent into creating a book like this!

A Future Classic

Covered everything I needed to know to write an intelligent data gathering web bot. The material is accurate, relevant and up to date while covering the subject matter to a depth that you would normally expect from a third edition text. Do my business a favour and don't buy this book.

A must read for any Developer attempting to use the web!

A book about the future of all content aggregation and knowledge management. Enough Said!!