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Summary: An excellent well written book
Review: This is an excellent well written book that gives plenty of examples and takes you through the proecess step by step for someone with some HTML programming experience. It helped me understand everything I needed to know. It is an excellent Book!
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Summary: Excelent and so on and so on...
Review: The book is well written, the examples are fine, and it has helped me to design several ASP database connections, pages, and more, making my life as a webmaster a lot easier. I suggest that if you pick up this book that you get the entire collection as well, and a fork lift 'cause the books are fatty.
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Summary: Very Well Written, still missing some important components.
Review: The book is well-written, not much useless information and paper-wasting. There are, however some point that need more consideration. For example, they must spend more time on databases with ASP. The topic is covered but, in my opinion, not well enough. Also, there wasn't a word about Email. As far as I know when Microsoft released their first versions of the ASP scripting machine it lacked email sending capabilities. Therefore other companies wrote components that would have those capabilities. Not a single word for any of those. I had to go to the net to find one. Good that I have web programming experience. Newbies wouldn't even know that there is such feature in web programming and it is not something to miss. Also, I didn't find anything about indexing database through ASP. I still don't know if that's possible. Other than that, everything they have touched upon is quite understandable and easy to grasp.
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Summary: Easy-to-read, yet comprehensive. A "best buy" in my book.
Review: Isn't it confusing to have some reviews be so negative and others (even most) be so positive on the same item? Do not allow previous negative reviews to cause you hesitation in acquiring this excellent text. (Namely the comments about so-called "grammatical" and/or "typographical errors"--WHAT is this person talking about? I have yet to notice [not saying there aren't any] one error in my 500 pages + of reading this book). The Wrox series (of which this is the first-step) is the staple in the ASP industry. Several of the Wrox books on ASP, this one included, serve as textbooks in the highly esteemed computer science curriculum at Cal-Poly. And for good reason. I have never read as well-written a computer book before. And that this has a plurality of authors (six wrote this book) makes the good integration of concepts even more amazing. Assuming you have a grasp of HTML, but NONE in ASP (or anything else, for that matter--databases included), the authors lead you through complexities so diplomatically and graciously that you have learned the concepts before you even realize how relatively technical it was. Just start at the beginning and read. They will tell you everything, step-by-step, that you will need. Like a great wizard-program. Concepts are explained. Software required (such as IIS) is cited and instructions given for acquisition, installation, and operation--all without becoming boring and repetitious! WHAT A GODSEND! VBScript, being the default language for ASP, is covered superbly. As each new concept is introduced (again, assuming you know nothing except HTML), a "Try It Out" lesson leads you through implementing it yourself. Pay-off of learning at each juncture. I have read a ton of computer books. Except for perhaps the "From the Ground Up" book on VB, nothing else comes even close to being as well thought-out in presentation of concepts, well written in a manner that allows maximum absorption of concepts, enjoyable to read, comprehensive in covering the complete topic at hand, and practical in that learning "pay-offs" occur frequently along a well-laid out learning sequence that culminates and builds off the preceding step. When it comes to learning ASP, the Wrox texts (this being the first book) cannot come more highly recommended. I plan on acquiring only the Wrox publications (okay, an O'Reilly publication may slip in there) when it comes to the ASP technology.
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Summary: Did anyone proofread this book?
Review: I haven't seen a programming book ( or for that matter any book ) written so poorly. Even a fifth grader would be disgusted by the sheer grammatical errors in the book. But what takes the cake away are the syntactical errors in the examples of code. The reader is left to do the debugging of the code. What are the publishers charging the $39.99 for???? This book should be free.
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Summary: This book is it!! well written, easy to navigate
Review: This is a great ASP book!! I tried others and was SO ANNOYED when they would set the whole book up to be one giant sample ecommerce site or something, because you have to understand the whole project in order to learn one little piece.. but this book is not like that, it's really well written and wonderfully organized; I constantly refer to it and learn chunks of stuff as needed. Excellent ASP and VBSCRIPT reference, and the authors really know their stuff. [...]
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Summary: es el mejor libro de asp que existe
Review: Este libro enseña paso a paso lo que es asp, no es necesario saber de programcion, pues este libro enseña desde el principio, es magnifico y muy completo, si enverdad uno quiere hacer paginas web este es el libro.
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Summary: Good Beginning Book
Review: We generally buy this book (and previously Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0) for any new programmers starting on an ASP project. We have used it to train interns and veteran programmers-turned-web-developers alike and both have commented on it's excellent writing and thorough treatment of all relevant topics. The only problem that I have with the book is that some of the code samples tend cause the new developers to think that they should write code for larger projects similarly -- which could be quite a mess. Over all and as a reference, its great. But my suggestion for next time around: improve the code samples!
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Summary: A must have for beginners and rogue developers
Review: An absolute must for anyone who has wanted to get into the development of Internet Applications. Very easy to read and understand. I have read several dev books that are so dry that I get cotton mouth and then gave up on dev. This book has totally changed my mind. An excellent follow up for this book is Beginning ASP Databases and Professional Active Server Pages 3.0. Do not bother with ASP+ just yet due to the fact the book is cheesy and the .NET framework is not quite baked yet.
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Summary: BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: I HIGHLY recommend this book for anyone interested in enhancing or someone who is just beginning with ASP. This book was very in depth and helps you to understand what goes on under the hood with ASP. I was developing a full-scale app halfway through the book!
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