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Summary: Best Money Spent
Review: For work I had to learn ASP in 2 weeks. After buying two other books I thought it was impossible till I came across this book. I not only was able to learn ASP but lead in all ASP projects now. Thanks A Lot!
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Summary: I wish all web development books were as good!
Review: I have collected a small library of web development books and I can simply say that "Sams Teach Yourself ASP 3.0 in 21 Days" is one of the best books I have read. I hope the same authors of this book will come out with an "ASP+" edition. Many publishers have a lot to learn from this book.
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Summary: Basically all you need to know -- a very easy read.
Review: This book teaches you basically everything most people need to know about ASP. It is an incredibly easy read, with lots of the material repeated to make sure that you remember things. Absolutely know programming, VBScript or HTML knowledge is required to follow this book. It'll teach you everything that's necessary.Being a Delphi programmer, I was horrified at the untidiness of VBScript. Fortunately, the authors really try to teach you how to write relatively readable VBScript code. If you are a professional programmer, you might find the book too simple. I, however, enjoyed the fact that I could read the book in a half-doze - nice for a change. You don't need to re-read things as you often need to in the really hardcore technical books, because the authors revisit most topics in other parts of the book. There are several small errors, but they don't affect the technical validity of the content. For example, the comments in some examples are often just copied and pasted from previous examples, and sometimes do not reflect what the script actually does. All in all, I think it is a good read for almost anyone, with the exception of existing ASP developers.
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Summary: Great starting point!
Review: I bought this book with a good understanding of Javascript and HTML, but nothing of server side scripting. Having read this book I've been successfully employed doing frequent server side projects. This book eloquently presented the transition between simple static pages and Active Server Pages, and holds your hand through the initial stages. This book is presented to those with Microsoft systems (IIS 5.0, Access, SQL), although it could conceivably be used with an ASP friendly ISP. Overall, the great code examples, great pace, and great readability.
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Summary: From 0 pct to 90 pct ASP comprehension in about five weeks
Review: Amazingly well written material. The book is an encouraging teacher when you start from 0 like me (I am a copywriter). In about five weeks I was not only capable of reading and comprehending ASP, I was able to finally discover that my Internet agency was excessively overcharging me for very simple programming chores like setting a system DSN. Boy, dropping a few lines of code shocked the hell out of them. Too bad I couldn't get PWS to run on my Win95 without messing up my TCP-IP.
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Summary: Outstanding! Really!
Review: I Was a total newbie of ASP and I was a little scared of studying ASP because I thought that it was a difficult language. Well, it is not an easy language, sspecially for the Databases and the Active X controls, but this book explains the programming language so clearly that ASP will become very easy to understand and to write scripts with it! I've read many manuals, but this is the best. Trust me.
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Summary: Best introduction to ASP
Review: If you have never programmed before, this book will be absolutely perfect for you. The examples are intelligent and they all work. The explanations are clear and accompanied with good examples. I only came across one or two minor typos. The reason I give this book only four stars is because the book has a very slow pace and quite a bit of redundancy - good for a beginning programmer - bad if you already know programming. For example, there are a half a dozen times where the reasons you should you OPTION EXPLICIT are mentioned. The term "debugging" is defined. Six pages are devoted to the difference between a fatal error and a non-fatal error - stuff like that. There were several other times I was saying to myself "you already said that". Well done otherwise.
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Summary: Fantastic, really informitive and authors replies to emails
Review: If you want to know ASP, be able to use it, and have no time to waste buy this book. When I started at my present job I had never even heard of ASP before, I was and still am the only coder employed here so the only help I had was Teach yourself ASP 3.0 in 21 days. I read it cover to cover in less the three weeks, I tried every practice and every question. I have improved the sites code and performance because of the training given in this book. It enabled me to keep my job and impress the owners of the company, if you read Teach yourself ASP 3.0 in 21 days you will learn ASP, it is that simple. I finished the book about two months ago, now I am looking for an ASP+ book if these authors had written a book about ASP+ as well, I would buy it sight unseen. There are two or three day's lessons I had to read over and over to really learn what was being taught. But even with this little inconvenience I think this book rates a five star.
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Summary: Perfect guide to Active Server Pages
Review: This is a well written, easy to understand, step by step guide to Active Server Pages. You don't know ASP? VBScript? Programming? HTML? Anything to do with Web programming? This is a perfect guide for you. It will show you how to create server side scripting using VBScript - the most commonly used language for ASP (Microsoft technology) - but the author does mention that there are non microsoft solutions for UNIX/Linux and that Javascript, jscript, Perlscript can be used as languages. I would recommend you use this guide only for a Microsoft driven ASP project - IIS 5.0 (Windows 2000), SQL Server 7.0 (Database examples) and Visual Interdev 6.0/Frontpage 2000 (color coded editor - if you don't need color coding then use Notepad). You can download evaluation copies from Microsoft.
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Summary: An excellent text for ASP newbies!
Review: Despite the numerous minor errors scattered throughout the book (I alone have found roughly 40-50), I would highly recommend the book to anyone that wanted to learn about ASP technology. Much content is covered in the 700 pages, including simple database access. The Bonus Projects presented at the end of each week really helped solidify the teachings in that week's lessons. Great work guys! Larry
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