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Summary: The Best for people to start learning VbScript/ASP
Review: This is the best ASP book using VbScript for people who wants to learn to develop data driven web site with ASP/Vbscript, the second good book for beginner is Beginning ASP 3.0 from Wrox press. I did go through 20 ASP books in the current market and conclude this. This ASP book from Sam will walk you through the details which is good enough on using IIS 5.0 and PWS and all the other asp book is not as clear and as get to the point like this. THe VbScript section is detail and clear enough to build a solid foundation of VbScript that is very important for further development. You can be a very outstanding professional ASP/Vbscript instructor for using this book to teach the beginner as it covers all the critical staff for starting to learn this technology in such a well orgainzed manner. I am waiting for the new release asp.net form the same authors.
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Summary: Simply the best ASP book I've read!
Review: I work in Educational Technologies at a University with a fantastic network. We run NT servers with IIS 5. Given this fact and the fact that we wanted dynamic, interactive pages on our web site and intranet, it was apparent that someone had to learn ASP.So I was commissioned to learn VBScript and ASP to create these dynamic pages, which, as you could guess since it is a university, needed to display data from one (or multiple) databases. So, I researched ASP books and settled on teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 published by Sams and authored by Mitchell and Atkinson. I must tell you that the book is so well-written and easy to understand that I was able to start creating ASP pages almost immediately! Especially important for me, as mentioned above, was learning database connectivity, which Mitchell and Atkinson made so easy to understand. Within a few days i had created my first ASP application--a "Download Manager" that does everything from track who downloads files, to what files they downloaded, to automatically download the files after the patrons confirmed their choices! There is no way that I could have done this w/o reading this book. I have since then bought another ASP book (some sort of "Ultimate Resource" book), but I still keep going back to Mitchell and Atkinson when I have questions. Get this book.
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Summary: Beginners Paradise
Review: Excellent stuff if you are a beginner.
For advanced junta, there are other hard-core books on ASP, forget this one. Actually this book is only for beginners. If you know nothing about ASP then this one is for you. I am not sure that you will be able to do any advanced scripting with this one, but if you are a newcomer to scripting world or ASP then this is the ultimate choice. Everything is explained in a simple manner. Starting from the basics of ASP to VBScript, Objects - Session, Server etc, File System Object and to Databases, everything is explained keeping "beginners woes" in mind.
There are lots of examples that help you to grasp the VBScript and ASP. Must buy for a beginner. If you want to enter ASP, then this is the first step. GO GET IT !!!.
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Summary: Stop searching, this book is the book.
Review: Just like you, as a developer I'm always needing to learn new lanquages and technologies. In order to keep up, I'm always buying and reading (or buying and throwing sometimes) tech books. This is the first tech book I've ever read cover to cover. And after doing so, I find myself wishing the Rolla-Guys could write on all lanquages. The book progresses at a perfect pace for beginners and is organized smartly for experienced programmers to skip around. As I mentioned I read it cover to cover though. There wasn't any useless information to skip over. Every topic was real world applicable and exciting to learn. I also didn't find any errors in the code (of the code I tried). Companion this book with Beginning ASP Databases(Wrox) to learn everything necessary for any very large ASP projects. Now that I started more "in-depth" books on ASP I can fully appreciate the solid foundation "ASP 3.0 in 21 Days" built.
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Summary: A Great book for Developers and Newbies
Review: Sams Teach Yourself ASPs in 21 Days is one of the few books that is helpful to both the experienced web developer wanting to learn a new developing platform and a new developer wanting to understand some of the basic concepts behind web design. The 21 day system introduces a good teaching method which focuses on some of the basic functions and objects of the language before moving on to teaching how to use these tools to create an RDBMS. I have developed primarily in ColdFusion with a SQL Server back end but having read this book, I'm convinced that ASP is a much more powerful way to develop an RDBMS. It's a great introduction to an object oriented web development language and is a great starter for those new to object oriented programming or programming in general. At approximately 700 pages, it's one of the shorter books covering ASPs with all the content you need.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This book is epitome of how all textbooks should be written. This is the kind of book I am used to getting from SAMS publishing. You can tell the authors took their time and did not appear to be trying to beat a deadline as one of SAMS other books I purchased recently. If you do not know ASP read this book and you will be very, very comfortable with it when you are done. This book makes you want to start coding web pages immediately. You just want to wallpaper the Internet with your ASP pages.
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Summary: What can i say, a great book
Review: Anyone who is looking for an easy introduction to ASP but also wants to know how to do almost anything with it, this is the book. It starts with the basics, gives you code examples and more than one example of how do to things, worked into day blocks, so if you have a spare 3 weeks you can set yourself work for each day. Good Index so you can find what you are looking for and well layed out. Thoroughly recommend this book
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Summary: It Works for Me
Review: The following email body was sent to the author,Scott Mitchell: Hello Scott, I'm far from a programmer, but have been trying for years to prove that wrong. Various courses, both formal and informal have all added up to an impressing list of educational attempts to bring my computing skills out of the dark ages, with varying success. However, I picked up your book, Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days , a while back and things are changing. No, your own career is not yet threatened by any hotshot from the East and North. Rest easy. However, for some reason, while slogging through your book, I'm starting to get it. I'm now about half way through (no, that doesn't mean 11.5 days), and I'm anticipating some of your code before I read it. This gives me immense joy to know that I'm at least beginning to think in the right direction. I can't give you all the credit; those years of never getting it are finally paying off. But the way you have written your book, the method you've followed, the examples you employ are all helping me to get a grasp of what's going on. And for the first time, I can see what direction I should be heading. And I attribute that to the way you perform an analysis on each example in your book.
So, Thank You. Thank you for taking the time and effort to lay out something that I, at least, can comprehend. I'm looking forward to the rest of where you'll be taking me in this book,and then I think I may be tackling one of your other projects. Or maybe not. It depends on needs of course, but in a world of what was once thought of as simply a sea of darkness, I'm seeing some light. Thanks. Craig Waugh
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Summary: The only ASP desk reference you need
Review: I was amazed! This book actually instructs on ASP in a way that made sense. I have an education degree, and this book was written how "teach yourself" books should be--straightforward with simple examples to teach concepts. The best part is the layout of this book that lends itself to be a very good desk reference after you get familiar with ASP. It's a book you'll use again and again.
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Summary: Good resource for classic ASP
Review: Even though I'm making the transition to ASP.NET, I still use this book occasionally. Good introduction to the ASP 3.0 model.
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