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Summary: Great for Learning, Great for Quick Answers!
Review: This book covers a lot of basics very fast.. I am not a novice with computers but I had taken an ASP class last year and was totally put off by it.. This book made it easy and fast! It was very clear and has you writing simple ASP programmed pages right from the start.. learning with hands on, or reading.. The index is fantastic and I still keep it by my side when I am having trouble to get "at a glance" answers.. I was very pleased with this purchase!
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Summary: Chaos
Review: This book fails its purpose. The layout of the info is all wrong and there is no gentle step-through. I bought the book because other books I bought (SQL, VB) in the Sams series have taught me well. If you are new to ASP and pick up this book, you will find to be a very difficult language to learn simply because this book rushes into things too quickly and leaves the reader quite baffled. If you want to learn ASP and if you want to learn it well, buy the Beginning Active Server Pages book by Wrox. That was the book I used to pick up ASP I still flip through it every now and again.
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Summary: An excellent book for beginners
Review: This book has turned out to be one of the best computing books I have ever bought. It is very well organised, is full of examples and presents the material in a straightforward manner. What I liked most was that the book shows alternative ways to do particular tasks. This allows the reader to experiment with different methods and tailor them to suit their needs. Within 2 days of buying this book I had written a fully web enabled database and the vbscript to access and modify it. If you are an ASP beginner, this should be your first book!
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Summary: A Thorough Introduction to ASP
Review: This book is aimed at people using NT Server, but others using ASP will find the book helpful as well. An excellent job of covering the basics of a lot of different ASP concepts.
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Summary: Good book for the NOVICE
Review: This book is an excellant choice for anyone who has priorexperience in almost any language including the beloved BASIC. Allthat is really needed is the basic comprhension of programming and the book suddenly becomes enlightening. With a decent amount of VB background and very little money this book taught me many things and is well worth the money spent. Only in around hour 7 to 8 does it get confusing about cookies because the author chooses a poor example (raspberry chip cookies) and it is hard to tell the two apart [ex. Response.Cookies("MyCookie")("Prefered") = "Raspberry Chip" ], other than that, each section is explained in full detail with a few minor exceptions. WELL WORTH YOUR TIME! END
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Summary: Needlessly complex due to writing style and mismarketing
Review: This book is made needlessly complex by the author's writing style. Concepts are presented and inadequately explained, because he assumes you have a strong VB background, even though the book is marketed as a beginning level book on the back. Might be ok as a follow-up book to something else.
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Summary: Ok - but either the books or PWS on NT w/SP 3 is wrong
Review: This book was ok to get a feeling for asp, although for the life of me I could not get the source code in chapter 15 to work. I kept getting wierd errors the the objRS.cursorlocation = adUseClient on line 46. I guess either the code is wrong or PWS for NT workstation (sp3) cant hack it. Anyway being a SQL programmer I would rather write my own sql instead of using recordsets, as much as can be done at least. Except for that shortcoming, which i dont know who to attribute to the book is ok. Not a technique book though - pure nuts and bolts.
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Summary: Better books available to learn ASP
Review: This book was very disappointing, to say the least. I purchased it with the intent of being on my way to understanding the fundamentals of ASP programming; unfortunately, like many other reviewers have pointed out, the authors could stand to enroll in a few high school level English classes. If you don't have an intermediate to advanced level of VBScript and HTML knowledge, don't buy this book! Save yourself some money and master VBScript before tackling ASP, as doing so will prove to help you immensely. Having read this book and done the examples and questions I feel like several hundred pages are missing--most of the examples/exercises asked you to code things that weren't even mentioned once in the book or that were exceptionally vague.
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Summary: Get a ghost writer?
Review: This book would be very good if the authors could write; the content is fine, the organization is good but...hmmm. It has a lot to say but takes a poorly written (and often overly complex) manner to explain the concepts involved. You hold your breath reading, since at any time a paragraph will appear that is so ambiguous it will take 10 minutes for you to decipher into what could have been clearly written, and understood in 1. Still, if you are patient you can eventually glean some good stuff here, and be well on your way to making respectable ASP.
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Summary: If you want to start with ASP... this is the book
Review: This is a great book for everyone who wants to learn the basics of ASP and begin writing code. There are great commented examples codes. It would be good if all other books could do the same and explain all code they show us. It's better if you read also a Visual Interdev book. Congratulations to the author.
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