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Summary: A must have for beginners
Review: I started out knowing absolutely nothing about ASP using VBscript. With-in 4 months after purchasing this book, I was developing fully functional applications. This is a must have book for those looking to get into ASP programming.
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Summary: Great beginner book
Review: The book is great for beginner and it has lot of examples of Asp programming.The code will work for Windows 2000 and also for Windows 98/95 with Personal Web server Installed.After finishing every try-out examples there is a details explation how the code works.It is a great beginner book and very easy to understand and I suggest this book for all type of Asp programmer but specially for the beginner who want to read Asp first time.
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Summary: Best self teaching book i've ever read
Review: Folks, to get off my rear end, register here and post praise about the book speaks enough for itself. I have a small library of books on my desk here at work and they're all about the same, they teach you averagely well and then completely lose you at some point. The reason I'm writing this is because I've been trying to get into some language, and I have ZERO experience. I tried Java for dummies--it lost me, i tried sams xml in 20 days-totally lost me. I tried the "bible" series which were decent, I tried "Perl for dummies" lost me. (not feeling so smart here) anyway, I'm through the first 150 pages of this book and I'm eating it all up. I've had not ONE logical screw up, I know exactly what I'm doing, and finally damnit, I feel like I have a grasp, --even if small--of ASP. Its such a breath of fresh air that I've gotten off my rump with the book here in my lap and logged into here just to tell you about it. If you're like me--zero programming experience and basic html understanding, and you want to learn ASP--get this book immediately! It teaches by example, which is supremely wonderful. to the authors: thankyou thankyou thankyou! Ethan
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Summary: Worth its weight!
Review: A very clearly-written book aimed at people with absolutely no experience of ASP (but you'll need to know HTML of course). I have only read the first 64 pages but having read them I now understand many things I never really understood before, such as what a server is exactly (and how it works), how to work with the server IIS 5.0, how browsers and servers communicate, what TCP/IP is, what HTTP is, and how scripting languages work. This information alone has already made the book a worthwhile purchase for me so I recommend it strongly.
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Summary: Did you ever have a favorite teacher?
Review: I don't have a lot of ASP experience-- and the last action I saw on the web development front was several years ago. But this book brought me up to speed: first explaining fundamentals (NOT to be underrated!), then going into a number of the more important facets of ASP. It is to the world of computer tomes like a favorite teacher is among Mrs. Edna Krabappels. From a perspective of ASP capabilities, this book does a great job of explaining, and showing understandable examples, in a way I haven't yet seen in a computer book. There isn't too much on performance-tuning, but in terms of getting you prepared for your baptism in the field, this book might be all you need.
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Summary: $($) worth of information + $($) worth of bloat
Review: LIke most Wrox books this one has a great deal of very useful information for the beginning programmer. They're well written, informative, and present the topics needed to understand ASP in a logical manner. Like its predecessor and just about any other Wrox book, its horribly bloated. While most authors will develop an example application as a way of illustrating techniques, Wrox gives it several of its own chapters. I suspect this is either due to some childhood grudge against trees or pure greed on the part of the editors as most of the book is completely unnecessary and will never be used. This is unfortunate as they're rather good for beginners. If you're a programmer with more than 1 year of experience, you should be reading something more conscise like an O'Reilly manual.
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Summary: Perfect if you're new / have little experience
Review: I love this book. I've been introduced to ASP and some programming before, so I only skimmed over the first few chapters, however they were a nice referesher. This book gives lots of examples and focuses on using VBScript (ASP's native scripting language)with ASP (I would recommend getting a VBScript book too if you're new). You can take this book nice and slow, or you can breeze through it; either way I would highly recommend this for either a newbie or an experienced program for a refresher.
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Summary: Great Learning Tool
Review: This book really helped me to learn ASP and has lots of coding examples. I have very little computer background and this book helped in conjunction with some online communities for me to develop an ecommerce site! However, it is definitely for the Beginner to Advanced Beginner.
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Summary: Great book
Review: Great book to learn ASP with great examples. Experienced programmers may skip some basic programming theory. Examples are very good and also the support given by WROX press is excellent and you can download the samples from their web site.
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Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK FOR BEGINNER'S
Review: This book give all the skills you need to do
ASP scripting at the starting level. I am
highly impresses with chapter 8,13,14,15.
It explains Recoredsets, application and
session objects in the best way.
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