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Summary: If you need to learn ASP 3.0, then look no farther!
Review: This is one of the best beginning books that I have ever read. I am a big fan of Wrox Press and Oreiley books, and this is clearly the book to use if you want to begin ASP pages. The book starts off for someone who has no programming experience at all but very quickly jumps into complicated subjects such as cookies, server access, databases, etc... The use of actual screen shots of what the code looks like in a window is a huge help. The chapter that serves as a sample application has helped me write more than 20 different applicationd already. Once you have mastered this book then I also recommend Professional Active Server Pages 3.0 as a reference book. Combined you will be an ASP Wiz. The book also touches on topics like COM and XML, so if you want to get your feet wet, then they are useful features as well, but not really what the book is all about.
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Summary: Overall, a good book
Review: The explanations of the examples presented in the text were excellent. Very easy to understand and follow. The supposed grammar problems were not a problem to me, possibly because I am not a grammar expert myself. I hardly even noticed any. The one thing about this book that did bother me however, was the order of the content. The chapters on error handling, scripting objects, and ASP components, seemed extremely out of place. These chapters contain information that is not critical to the average ASP developer, yet they come ahead of basic information such as database connectivity. I think that most people want to access a database before they want information about Ad Rotation!
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Summary: Excellent book to learn ASP & VBScript
Review: An excellent book for beginners, Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 starts simply and builds on what you've learned until you code a fairly fully-featured application. By the time you've gone through the book, you'll be able to create web pages that can return and capture information stored in databases, tailor pages based on information captured from input by users -- in short, create web pages that are in fact active. Although there are some grammatical errors in the text itself, I think another reviewer perhaps overstated their existence. More importantly though, the examples and exercises take you through using the materials covered in a clear, concise manner. Not a lot of fluff or worthless repetition. Although geared towards Windows 2000, the book can be used if you have a Windows 95/98 platform, at least as far as learning ASP basic coding techniques. An appendix covers use of Personal Web Server (required to let your 95/98 based PC act as a server and thus run the ASP code). Numerous other appendices provide worthwhile reference materials concerning errors, VBScript reference, runtime libraries. etc. If you are looking to teach yourself ASP, this is an excellent book to use to achieve that end. Don't let its size (1100+ pages) turn you away.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: It got me off to good start with ASP! Great example code to work from...
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Summary: Buy it for the appendices
Review: The book has a great 300 page appendix with valuable information. The book has good coverage of ASP fundamentals. It is geared toward beginners and takes a very slow and repetitive pace. I would have preferred cleaner code examples that used cascading style sheets and perhaps some DHTML too. There are horrendous grammar errors so numerous on every page that it is obvious to me that Wrox Press doesn't employ an editor. I wasted at least three hours rereading sentences throughout this book just trying to decipher the giberish into sensible text (other Wrox books suffer from the same problem). The book is written at about an eighth grade level and style.
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Summary: This book saved my hide
Review: The secret to a successful web career is telling your prospective employer that you know how to do this or that, get hired, and then go ahead and learn what you claimed to know. That's exactly what I did, and it landed me an internship for a major automotive company as the designer for my division's site. Problem is that I was required to be able to connect Access databases to the page- I didn't know how. This book saved my hide.It's been three weeks since I bought this book and not only am I able to connect our company's database, but I now have the skills to write dynamic pages. I wholeheartedly reccomend this book. The essential concepts are explained clearly with solid examples, simple diagrams, and analogies.Just remember to not let it's size intimidate you, and don't bite off more than you can chew.
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Summary: best IT book purchase yet
Review: I came to this book with a knowledge of HTML, Javascript and a dabbling in other areas. I did not notice any major grammar problems - certainly not to the detriment of the content - and have so far (chapter 12 out of 18) found the book not only intuitive and detailed but also fairly easy to read. This is the first IT book I've picked up and read 500 pages of without getting bored - which must say something! Regarding the content - it seems comprehensive, uptodate and overall useful - ranging from how to implement banner ad rotators to error handling, database access to a good tutorial on VBScript (running throughout the book)...and a lot more.
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Summary: Easy to understand beginner book
Review: I've been buying a lot of computer books lately. I find this one very easy to read and understand. Although some people may have a problem with the grammar, it's not a grammar book. This is a book for programming. I think it has great examples, and I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Technically sound and gramatially friendly
Review: for technical content, BASP3 is an excellent book; those who have issues with the grammer did not notice the literary style was geared more toward fisrt-person casual interaction - hence the series title "Programmer-to-Programmer." Even someone experienced wih ASP (as I was) can benefit from the excellent VBScript reference and ADO explanations. The book provides very hard-to-find information, including how to interface with different types of databases (this is harder to find than you'd think) as well as detailed syntax descriptions for VBScript options (another difficult to find item). This is not a book to learn web development! If you don't already have a good grasp of HTML, start somewhere else. If you've taken HTML as far as you can and are ready to learn dynamic content using ASP, this is the place to start.
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Summary: Hmmm...His English teacher would shudder.
Review: I bought this book to help me make the transition from SSJS to ASP. I cannot adequately describe how profoundly poor the grammar usage in this book is. Wrox consistently provides good information, but lacks the elegance and basic English grammar of other publishers, such as O'Reilly. The content is good. The grammar is poor. If you can stand to read it, it is a good book overall, although I would love to see at least one book on programming ASP with JScript instead of VBScript.
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