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Summary: Great Reference
Review: This book is a great reference for Active Server Pages. It will get even a novice programmer started and is clear and to the point.
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Summary: A very short review
Review: Active Server Pages for Dummies by Bill Hatfield. This book is, as I see it, an absolute must for anybody who wants to learn the basics of ASP. This book certainly helped me when I first started.
It takes you through a world of programming, but not in a technically difficult way, instead, Bill Hatfield uses a lot of humour to explain different concepts. This is the one book you need if you want to learn ASP. (Afterwards I recommend Wrox books)
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Summary: Good overview of ASP
Review: This book is a good overview of ASP. There isn't enough detail in it to make it specificly useful to what ever project you want to work on, but it is a good start. If you have no prior experiance with ASP, like I did, this book would be a good place to start. Active Server Pages for dummies gives you enough of an introduction to the technology that after you read it, you should know what you need to look for to get the job done. You will have to go to other sources for more in depth coverage, but at least you have an idea about what's going on when you do. The book also comes with a pretty good list of online resources to go to for help. I gave this book 3 out of 5 stars based on the coverage of the topic. If I had considered the price as well I would have given it a 4 or 4-1/2. This book is cheap (< [$]). I would recomend it for people who know nothing about ASP, but who have experiance with other web technolgies. This book would be useless to anyone who has worked with ASP already.
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Summary: Worthless
Review: As a beginner I found this book worthless. Many of the scripts in the book and on the CD apparently do not work. I asked a friend, who is a bright engineering student with programming experience, to try to try her hand at getting the guest book script to work and she didn't have any luck either. I submitted a question twice to the online Q&A forum over 3 weeks ago and it has yet to be posted, nor have I received any acknowledgement that the message was received. In my opinion this book fails on all counts. I advise beginners to look elsewhere.
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Summary: Excellent for beginners!!
Review: If you are a web designer and want to learn ASP, I highly recommend this for your first read. This book is not for anyone who has advanced skills with ASP. It is perfect for the person just getting started.
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Summary: Good intro particularly for VBScript and Access
Review: This book gives you enough information to get start writing and running Active Server Pages. I had a few problems getting the Personal Web Server and FrontPage to coexist, but this was addressed at the authors web site, mentioned in the book. I particularly found the Classified Ads example (included on the CD) useful for learning to interface with an Microsoft Access database. The database examples are all with Microsoft Access. All but one of the chapters was in VBScript, so this book might not be the best source if your interested JScript. Its definitely worthwhile to work through the books examples. The book concludes with web sites for more information and examples. The appendix describes Visual Interdev as another platform for data access, but might also have mentioned capabilities in FrontPage. Also new in Access 2000 are "data access pages" for another data access method. I would recommend buying this book as a good tutorial and not as a reference (and the book does tells you how to download the VBScript documentation.)
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Summary: for dummies is right
Review: I just read some of the positive reviews and I cant believe it! This book is so vague and so spotty, that it cannot be relied on at all. And on top of that, the paddy-cake paddy-cake language is downright obnoxious!! If you want to be able to actually do something, then I would go to the wrox programmer to programmer series specifically the professional active server pages 3.0.
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Summary: Fantastic quickstart book!
Review: In order to get a website up and running, I needed to jump into ASP quickly. I had plenty of VB experience (although that's probably not necessary) and some JavaScript. This book supplied everything else. The site was functional very quickly. Every step of the process is entertaining and sinks in quickly.
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Summary: An Excellent Introduction to Active Server Pages
Review: This was my first book for learning ASP. It's relaxed informational style along with easy to read examples made it easy to learn ASP. It covers most of the basics you would need to get a simple site up and running and it's samples actually work. It's a good book to have on hand even for more advanced ASP developers. I would recommend this book to anyone who is starting out with ASP.
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Summary: Excellent Introduction to ASP development
Review: I purchased this book to get me up to speed on the basics of developing ASP applications to prepare for several development projects I had coming up, and found it Very useful indeed in getting started and learning the technology. It's well written, and includes many useful code samples and examples, especially the end-to-end sample application found in one of the last chapters. In fact, in the notes after that final project, a fully functional sample classified ads website, the author suggested to try converting it into a personal ads website for singles, which was in fact the exact requirements for one of my own projects! Thanks to the well-documented source code for that final project, my task was made much, much eaiser, and the finished application works great! I would definitely recommend this title to Anyone wanting to learn the basics of using Active Server Pages to create dynamic websites.
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