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Summary: HA HA HA - Not!
Review: The hype is there but you really need a brain of a dummy to get through this book. I lost track of important concepts so many times because of the comic reliefe the authors of this book try to put in here. What do they think they are running here? a Active Seinfeld Play? Take my word for it. Don't waste your money on this book. It's really not worth it!
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Summary: Very good starting point
Review: This book is very easy to understand. I bought a more complex book thinking it'd be more comprehensive ... and it was .. but that made it confusing. This gives you examples you can put to use and will introduce you to other things you can pursue in asp. If you don't know asp this should be the first book you buy.
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Summary: A Great Book!!!!
Review: I have never read a book like this. It is a real Five_Star book
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Summary: turn a site into a web APPLICATION... start with this book!
Review: Active Server Pages technology rocks! This is the easiest way to harness web database power. Turn your clients' web sites into interactive WEB APPLICATIONS today. Learn how to easily use built-in web server objects to pass data between your web pages, and to and from your server using Request, Response, Application, and Session. Discover the global.asa file which maintains your application & session objects. Learn about the built-in server component for database support, ADO, and its Connection & RecordSet objects. Brush up on your SQL commands so that you can customize your database queries. I went from non-programmer to intermediate-level ASP developer in less than a month. Find an ISP that hosts the IIS or chiliSoft ASP web server, and read these great books to learn how to get your Web APPLICATION up & running this week: ASP for Dummies --> Beginning ASP 2.0 --> Professional ASP 2.0 and ADO 2.0.
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Summary: Buy this book if you want to start ASP
Review: This is a fine book on ASP. I would advise anyone who started ASP recently to invest in this book. For more advanced users there are better books.
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Summary: Not bad at all
Review: I bought the book knowing only peripheral information about ASP's, and I got about 1/3 of the way through in couple of hours. This book was very helpful in getting me started. I have a few years worth of programming experience and didn't want to spend a godawful amount of time learning this technology. The book flowed well, very informative. The only small problem I had was that in the beginning there were examples that I could tryout myself almost every page, but when the subject matter got a little heavier, the examples were a bit sparse. I like to get my hands dirty, so to speak.I do look forward to finishing the book and seeing how things go.
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Summary: Good for starting, but ...
Review: I started this book with little knowledge of ASP. I finished this book with a decent beginnings into the language, but by no means a mastery of it. First, the examples in the book - particularly the Classy Classifieds - were not annotated nearly well enough. A lot of the later examples assumed you knew stuff about SQL commands and did not make much of an attempt to explain them. I got some really neat stuff out of the book, but a week and a half after having gotten it, I need to get a more advanced ASP book in order to do more useful things.
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Summary: Excellent first book on ASP!
Review: I knew very little about Active Server Pages before I read this book. I now have insight that I have used in real world applications with real world clients. My confidence with ASP has risen significantly. Easy to understand and very good examples make this book an excellent resource. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone wanting to learn ASP.
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Summary: Excellent resource
Review: I started with absolutely no knowledge of VBScript and ASP and after reading this entry level book I am now building fairly complex applications. Great first book!!!!
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Summary: maybe
Review: I've read good books, and I've read bad books... I've learned HTML and JavaScript with the use of self help how to books, but this is one that I will have to call a disaster. The organization is good, but it downplays a lot of the powerfull features of the technology while over qualifing those who shouldn't even attempt it.
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