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Summary: Great Start to ASP
Review: ASP for Dummies was the first computer book I ever read cover to cover. I learned to do use ASP efectively with this book in less than a week!The exapmple code in the book is well written and easily portable. This book was so cool that it forced me to buy weebspace on a decent server so that I could share my ASP Pages with the world in less than a month.
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Summary: Good Code to work with and learn form
Review: With this book and Teach Yourself Active Server Pages In 24 hours I went from not knowing what ASP ment to dynamic web pages that are database driven in MS SQL for my company. This learning process took about 6 weeks. The code in the CD is good to play with to see why asp works the way it does. Only 4 stars because some things like recordsets are not clear but I know what a record set is now.
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Summary: You need this book
Review: I love this book, I use it everyday for a reference. As a beginner it gave me everything I needed.
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Summary: A good place to start.
Review: Bill Hatfield makes tackling the ASP architecture less intimidating. The book gets you off on the right foot, and that's all a Dummies book should have to do. You'll need to get more advanced than this to do professional work, but this book answers the simple/stupid questions you might feel too foolish to ask otherwise. The code examples are good, and the book remains handy as a quick reference long after you've finished reading it straight through. Eventually, after you've moved on to more advanced ASP/web development books, coded some real-world apps and become an expert, you can snicker and look down your nose at the next ASP newbie. Or you can hand them this book.
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Summary: Simple and beautiful!
Review: Guys this is a really simple and well written book especially for people who want to make good applications without getting into boring and terrifying stuff. Good job Bill .keep it up!
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Summary: An excellent resource for the ASP beginner
Review: If you've seen the Monster Board or any other hi-tech recruiting site, then you know that ASP programmers are in great demand. Bill Hatfield shows you how to acquire those needed skills without confusing you or making you feel stupid. Each concept is clearly explained and he even gives you examples to make it more understandable. I now know about recordsets, ADO, and VBScript and, this is the important part, I got a great job based on what I learned from this book! Dummies, while usually missing the mark, hit it straight on with this book. Thanks Bill!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book has boosted my former HTML and Javascipr knowledge even further by teaching me the very complex technology of ASP. I highly recommend this book to anyone with the aspiration to learn ASP.
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Summary: Very Good Book, Great Writing & Great Explanations
Review: I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn ASP. It's really well written and easy to understand. I just wish they would do something about the cover though....I know lots of people who refuse to buy dummies books just because of the title and cover. So put a cover on the book and then read it, you'll feel much better.
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Summary: Harness the power and flexibility of ASP
Review: If you want dynamic Web pages that create personalized content for visitors or automatically pull updates from a database, then ASP is for you. This friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to build powerful Active Server Pages applications that will take your Web site to the next level. Discover how to: *Understand the ASP open development environment *Customize and personalize Web pages *Access database information *Write scripts in VBScript or JavaScript *Work with ActiveX components
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Summary: Easy to understand and grasp, yet very poor CD sampler
Review: This book is excellent at helping ASP rookies understand the basic principals, concepts and VB script coding surrounding ASP development. The "try this" samples in the book are great hand holding tools and in the beginning the explanations are very clear. Unfortunately, the author really loses control toward the end of the book and it gets very complicated very fast. The most disturbing thing of all was the CD which accompanies the book and contains the really complex sample ASP applications- applications that one would hopefully like to adapt and use. The problem is the scripts on the CD do not work and the coding is very very sloppy and error ridden. Also there is a lot the user must do (on his own) to try and get the scripts to work. What infuriates me the most is the author leaves it up to his readers to find all the problems and then debug his code for him.(Authors Web Site) This is totally unacceptable for someone making money off a product and holding himself out as an expert in the field. And it drops my rating from what would probably be 4 stars to 2 stars. As an example I would give HTML: The Definitive Guide by Musciano and Kennedy a 5 star rating. There explanations and examples are bulletproof and they personally respond to emails.
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