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Summary: Great book
Review: My money was well spent on this book. I started out as a complete beginner and now I am programming fully date-driven e-commerce sites. The writers do a great job integrating advanced issues while learning something for the first time, so as your knowledge grows you can always return to the big red book for reference.
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Summary: Should Be Clearer On The Target Audience
Review: This book is decent, but it would be nice if they'd be clearer with their target audience. The first 7 chapeters are virtually useless to anyone with knowledge of html and forms. For them, it can be summed up in one chapter.I bought it because it said beginner ASP. Little did I know it should have said Activer Server Pages 3.0 for Beginning Programmers (as opposed to ASP beginners).
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Summary: Best book to learn asp
Review: Great learning aid to understanding ASP. You don't need any pre requisites and the style of writing leads you nicely through the learning process. If you've already got a little experience in this topic you'll find some areas fairly basic but don't let that put you off. I wish all books were written this well.
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Summary: Steve
Review: I have some background in VB and alot of experience in html. Overall this book provides alot of information and,yes, the occasional typos are annoying. The most unpleasant one is in the downloaded code. I spent about one hour searching for the typo but finally got it corrected. The opening chapters provide a good introductin but once the book moved into more advanced topics like ADO and SQL I found myself more memorizing than really understanding the examples. I guess the authors felt they needed to cover alot of ground but the book would have better if they stuck with idea of a beginner's book and leaving the advanced topics more advanced books. I did learn alot but I am already looking at other books that will explain the topics more thoroughly. This is a very good book, but you might consider starting with Visual Basic books, which will give you a better grasp over VBA, which is essentially what ASP is.
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Summary: Great starting place - but lots of typos
Review: I've been using this book as my primary ASP "teacher" for several months now, and have found it extremely worthwhile. I had never programmed in ASP before, although I had a very small amount of scripting experience. The book goes step-by-step through most of what you'll want to know to get started. I'm now at the point that I am able to create somewhat complicated database-driven sites, although I realize there's still a tremendous amount to learn. My main criticism of the book is the rampant typos. In most cases the mistakes don't affect the reader's ability to absorb the material (although they are distracting), but in a few instances typos appear in the sample code--and could seriously confuse the reader. There are a few sections of the book which appear to have gone straight from rough draft to the final printed page. Even a fast read-through by an editor would have caught many of these errors--which makes me wonder if the book was actually ever edited! Other than the typos, I do recommend this book to the savvy HTMLer wanting to expand his/her abilities.
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Summary: simply one of the best tech books I've read....
Review: How can I tell you this book is great without losing credibility? Hmmmm.... I'm not motivated to go into detail like the other reviewer. In short, these authors created a book which has awesome intro chapters... I mean great! for so many reasons: no assumptions, great printed examples, a clarification of asp role within the industry, comparison of asp to other server sides... so many books fails with asp... other books can never break through the jargon... this book does.... LAST POINT... if your starting, like me... it's great... if you're more advanced, perhaps the later chapter would be best or the professional version of this series... wow, a damn good book....
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Summary: Good Book *FOR BEGINNERS*
Review: I would rate this book as a very good starting point for ASP beginners. If you are already an ASP programmer, go for Professional ASP.
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Summary: If you want to be "the one" DO ASP and start here !
Review: Great book to start with. Install PWS and go ahead DO IT , and this book will help you a lot !
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Summary: A must have
Review: If you have any interest in designing Active Server Pages for the web, you must get this book. It does a wonderful just of mixing factual inforamtion with hands-on practice. Within minutes you'll have your first page up and running. I would recommend this book to anyone who has even the slightest interest in learning ASP.
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Summary: Great for beginners
Review: I have just gotten into coding with ASP and found this book to be ease to follow and very helpful. After reading this, you should follow up with the "Professional" title by the same publisher.
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