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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Although I had an advanced degree in Computer Science all my project experience was in the field of non-web-based application development. So when I entered the web application development market I needed a fast paced book to teach me how to convert my skills from the usual database development to a web based one.
Although many online articles were helpful this book was the reason I understood many concepts.
Its a perfect book for a beginner but if you are already experienced in programming/databases this wouldn't be a bad place to start off web development in ASP (this is not ASP.NET).
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Summary: The Real ASP Bible
Review: This book took me from Frontpage Websites to being a real website developer. I've gone back to it hundreds of times. This is the Moby Dick of the ASP coding world.
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Summary: Not well written
Review: In my opinion, this book isn't well written. The authors seem to talk about certain subjects before they even teach you what they are talking about. The book also likes to jump around. Even though this book isn't a total waste of money, it should explain in more detail certain subjects that the author should know, might be a little confusing to the reader.
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Summary: Good book overall - coding style could be more efficient.
Review: I am somewhere between the level of beginning to intermediate in ASP programming. I found this book to be useful and easy to read for a beginner - for the most part. My biggest complaint about this book is that it teaches you how to code everything using the longest syntax possible! Everything is like written in long hand or something. The coding examples are definitely not the most efficient way to write ASP pages. I just followed the code exactly for Chapter 10 (SQL Statements to Modify Data) and did a similar write up using the techniques learned from my co-workers (who are advanced ASP developers) and found out that I could have written the same thing using half less code.The coding techniques used within a page are sometimes too repetitive - like building string values upon string values upon string values - just to derive to a single final result page. If you like doing massive concatenations - then this book is for you! The variables are declared and you end up using it like 100 times in the same page over and over. There are more efficient ways to write ASP pages. I think this is frustrating for a beginner because 1) you're more likely to make more mistakes when you have to type more 2) finding your mistakes in all the repetitive code makes it that more difficult and 3) you end up burning more valuable time - which was everything that I experienced. I'm not saying that I don't recommend this book - I do. I'm just saying that the coding style used could be more condensed and efficient. The plus side is that this book gives lots of good examples - again, if you like to do things the long way. I do like the Wrox series books - own 5 of them. I've had a chance to read a few chapters of Professional Active Server Pages 3.0 and I think I like that book much better - although a little more technical and less emphasis on ASP databases but straight to the point in coding style. Good luck and happy reading! :-)
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: When I started to read this book, I have only the knowledge that a user of Microsoft FrontPage may have: Very little HTML. I had zero VBS programming experience and I had some SQL. I am beginning Chapter 12 and I am already creating very impressive ADO/ASP web applications at my job's intranet. This book is an excellent place to start learning ASP.
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