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Summary: Its What You Need. Seriously!
Review: I have been a Web Design and Developer since 1998. I picked up this book in 2002 because I wanted to learn how to create an online database program and a e-commerce store. I picked it up at my local book store and found that it was very easy to read.
Today, creating an online store in less than 21 days for any of my customers is not a problem.
I highly recommend this book for anyone wishing to get their web development career started.
Use it for any type of online application.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: I have bought many ASP books about E-Commerce, but this is the best one. This book saved me alot of time and frustration.Great job!
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I knew only a little ASP when I started this book, but the tasks go from simple to more complex in a very smooth manner. Plus, once you're done, you wind up with a (very simple) online store. If you're looking to build a store, this one's for you!
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Summary: There is one big error in the examples !!! fix it here
Review: I like the book so fare... But I sure got stuck in day 8 !! Because the code in storefuncs... does not work at my computer. I use office 98 and win 98 and Personal Web Server and IE5. You can remove the error - if you remove line 12 in storefuncs... If you wan't to use the code you got to read all the chapters, they edit/add and make changes to old files as the go along. Hope I could help. (Still a ok book)
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Summary: Great Book for Beginners
Review: I liked this book, It teachs you basic concepts about e-commerce. It shows you how to install what you need, what to do about credit card and banks, etc. You should know a little bit about script programming to get started on this book. So, If you want to introduce in this topic I recommend you to buy this book.
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Summary: I teach using this book
Review: I teach ASP in the California State University system and my students are generally happy with this book. It provides enough source code you could make a shopping cart and catalog and understand what you are doing and why you were choosing to do it with Session variables or not. There is definitely some annoying errata, and the source code doesn't match entirely with the source on the CD. I was disappointed in it's coverage of password protection. So, this is far from a perfect 5. Someone could get up to speed with ASP pretty quickly with this book. I use it to teach ASP to a cross-section of students with moderate computer backgrounds--not computer science majors. It does not cover the basic functionality, like loops and variables, so a better book for beginners may be one such as Learn ASP in 21 Days. That is if you are still teaching or learning ASP rather than dot-Net. And I honestly don't know which is best to learn at this transitional point. I find ASP very simple to learn and teach from books like this that just tell you what to do, show you, and let you do it.
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Summary: I teach using this book
Review: I teach ASP in the California State University system and my students are generally happy with this book. It provides enough source code you could make a shopping cart and catalog and understand what you are doing and why you were choosing to do it with Session variables or not. There is definitely some annoying errata, and the source code doesn't match entirely with the source on the CD. I was disappointed in it's coverage of password protection. So, this is far from a perfect 5. Someone could get up to speed with ASP pretty quickly with this book. I use it to teach ASP to a cross-section of students with moderate computer backgrounds--not computer science majors. It does not cover the basic functionality, like loops and variables, so a better book for beginners may be one such as Learn ASP in 21 Days. That is if you are still teaching or learning ASP rather than dot-Net. And I honestly don't know which is best to learn at this transitional point. I find ASP very simple to learn and teach from books like this that just tell you what to do, show you, and let you do it.
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Summary: Very Good overview
Review: If you are a programmer, 21 days is probably a bit much. If you do 8 hr days, you can finish this in a week, tops. I bought three ASP books when I began learning asp several weeks ago, and this by far has been the best book. Nothing beats the learning approach. The other two texts serve as good reference books, but this is what taught me how to do things. The end of the week wrap up exercises are good, but while they lead you to believe they build on each other, they actually recode a different approach to the same object and then add new functionality in the later reviews. Also, reference is made to inc files, which don't seem to work anymore in the latest browsers. Rename your inc files to asp files and it should work just fine.
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Summary: Beginners STAY AWAY!!!!!!!
Review: If you are new to programming, I suggest you avoid this book at all costs. I would have though that after 4.5 years programming 21 days to learn anything is enough time but not in this case. There are a number of examples that have "typos" in them and unless you can program, spotting them is not easy. Nice and easy style of writing in the beginning seriously alters later in the book clearly stating the work of another author. It becomes very technical and extremely "beginner unfriendly".
Having said all that, I would recommend this book as ONE of the reference books you use while programming in ASP. I hope this helps.
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Summary: Excellent source for learning ASP at commerical level.
Review: If you don't have your own server this thing shows you no mercy. If you have access to a (NT4) server and you can change stuff on there yourself then go for it. If not, be prepared to be stopped in your tracks after day 4. If you can't find a way to call your ODBC connection then you're SOL. It tells to set up MS PWS on your personal machine but I'd reccomend going for a cheap extra machine and run linux/php-MySQL/Apache.
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