Rating: 
Summary: The most useful book I've ever read.
Review: If you have Win2000 you can't go wrong with this book. I happened to have Win2000 so installing IIS and ASP was much, much easier than expected. The book shows you how to turn one machine into both Client and Server (so you can develop ASP and check it all on one machine w/o a network). Theres a great explanation of object oriented programming...the best I've ever come across, and the book shows you how to access a database on the same machine you're running the code. In literally 2 hours, I'd turned my PC into a server which interprets the ASP, set up my database (I used Access, examples also for SQL Server), and had written enough code for my SQL queries to be successfully run. The explanations are very well written and very easy to grasp. This is the most useful book I've ever read, without a doubt. There are also explanations for Visual Basic. This beginners guide will make you feel like you're a master, you'll want to come back to amazon.com and post a 5 star review for it. If you have any interest, buy it. You truely won't regret it.
Rating:
Summary: Good book for the beginning Webmaster
Review: This book is extremely good for anyone who is intrested in becoming a webmaster! However, I do recommend you have a strong knowledge of HTML, and a little bit of knowledge on MS Access or MS Sql. You can still understand the book and learn alot from it if you don't already know these, but it gets kind of confusing when you're trying to learn 4 or 5 languages! The book teaches you everything you need to know about programming in ASP, it will also teach you VBScript.Minimum requirements for this book: Windows 2000 Pro, MS Access and/or SQL 7.0+ Recommended requirements for this book: MS Interdev 6.0, SQL 7.0+ If you don't have ANY of the above, I would not recommend buying this book. Bottom line: Great book, some typo's, knowledge of web environment recommended before purchase
Rating:
Summary: Best Beginning ASP Book Out There!
Review: This book has proved its worth countless times. It has helped me with everything from database connections to VBscript syntax to providing handy code examples. I can't emphasis enough how this book has helped me go from a casual HTML daubler to programming ASP pages in no time. It will probably not offer anything new to an experienced developer, but like most Wrox books, you won't be disappointed!
Rating:
Summary: great for us COBOL dinosaurs
Review: Can teach an old dog new tricks! Many lucid examples, covers lots of basics. As a neo to client-server programming, I appreciate this book a lot. I didn't notice too many typos, myself. Great downloadable source code examples from publisher's web site. You do need to know at least the basics of HTML before starting this book. Am taking a break for a few days before jumping into the "Professional" book by same publisher. One of the best programming texts I've read, and I have seen a few, during undergrad and graduate work!
Rating:
Summary: Best ASP book for beginners and semi beginners!
Review: It was a Joy reading this book. Everything is explained clearly, to begin with the authors took the time to explain the details how to set up your file, how to setup virtual directory in IIS and how to view them in browsers and other valuable points, and this was just in first chapter! All the examples were bug free and were working fine. I did not waste any time to hassle of why the example is not working. If you are new in ASP or got disoriented reading other ASP book, as it happened to me, read this book.
Rating:
Summary: The ASP Programmer Wanted BOOK!
Review: In Bahasa Indonesia (English see below): Buku ini bagus banget untuk programmer pemula yang ingin belajar ASP. Setiap bab disertai contoh-contoh listing program yang membuat Anda untuk mengetikkan pada NotePad Anda. Meskipun ditulis dalam bahasa Inggris, cara penulisannya begitu jelas dan gampang dipahami. Pada akhir buku ini ditutup dengan cara menginstall PWS, Syntax ASP dan Kode Error.
--------------------- English HERE --------------------------
First of all, this book is very very heavy. But with the clearly step by step it covering every new programmer in ASP. This book is very usefull if you don't have a background in programming. U'll learn how to coding a program listing, tips about how the program works. Every chapter have a lot of example and it challenge u to type a listing program from a NotePad :P. The language it's so EASY to understand.
Rating:
Summary: The place to start ASP
Review: I feel lucky that i chose this book to start my ASP experience. It's hard to describe how helpfull was it for a novice like me.....Good work..
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Tutorial and Refresher
Review: Beginning ASPs effectively presents the whys and hows of Active Server Page development. Whereas most "beginner" books either discuss only the most basic aspects of a topic or present information that will overwhelm the reader, this book is right on target. Most readers will happily discover an effective mix of discussion and examples, a combination also lacking in many books on this topic. I would highly recommend this book! When your done be sure to pick up Beginning ASP Databases as a natural extension. Enjoy.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent book - for the ABSOLUTE beginner.
Review: This is a great book if you are new to the world of programming and want to get your teeth into some basic ASP development, it walks you through all the basics of programming (or should i say scripting) using VBScript and ASP - but be warned - If you have done any kind of development before youll quickly hit the limits of this book, and may find yourself better off with Professional ASP 3.0
Rating:
Summary: Fantastic content, but typo ridden...
Review: Like all Wrox "Beginning..." books, this one does a fantastic job of taking the topic and explaining it from the ground up. The Good: No prior knowledge of ASP is necessary - trust me, I didn't have any and that's why I bought this book. The content is well organized and very thorough. Coming from an extensive client/server development background I wanted to get started learning web technologies and this was a perfect starting point for me. Even if you're new to programming entirely this book does a fairly decent job explaining even the most basic programming concepts and how they relate to the web. If you're not new to development, some of the more basic chapters can be skipped (like chapter 4: variables, chapter 6: objects, chapter 12: ADO, chapter 13: recordsets). Also, the last chapters on COM+, XML and the appendices were just excellent. The Bad: Also like most Wrox books, this one seems to be lacking an editor, and is the only reason why I couldn't give this book 5 stars. Halfway through the book it became a game of trying to find the typo on every page...and yes, there is almost one on EVERY PAGE... Most of these were annoying grammatical errors, but some (very few) were the deadly kind that crept into their examples. This makes it a little difficult to get things running, but in the long run makes you understand the content better by having debugged the author's code! Summary: If you're new to the web, or even new to programming, Active Server Pages is THE technology to get started with. This book does an excellent job starting you from scratch and getting you to an intermediate level by the end of the book...but you'll have to wade through the typos.
|
