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Summary: How can you do web programming without.....
Review: How can you do web programming without database programming? I mean thats the main reason we learn C#, or for that matter Java. For web programming a database is a MUST. I could use PERL or PHP or even Javascript to do scripting stuff. This book leaves out ADO.NET which is crucial to Web Programming. I advise to skip this book and to try something else.
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Summary: Whatever you do, don't mention data!
Review: I didn't give this book 5 stars because nothing is perfect. However, these authors have done a pretty impressive job on their book. Let me tell you what I liked: I liked the introduction where they gave you all of the important C# syntax BEFORE launching into the WEB material. Then they showed me how to get started with simple WEB projects. This included the use of important controls, properties and more. Then they even did some work on GDI graphics (and I couldn't find this material in ANY other book on the WEB that I looked at in the book store). The book ends with a couple of good WEB service examples, but I haven't gotten to writing them yet. Well, the book is about 500 pages... Pretty good deal for what I got out of it.
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Summary: Nothing is Perfect
Review: I didn't give this book 5 stars because nothing is perfect. However, these authors have done a pretty impressive job on their book. Let me tell you what I liked: I liked the introduction where they gave you all of the important C# syntax BEFORE launching into the WEB material. Then they showed me how to get started with simple WEB projects. This included the use of important controls, properties and more. Then they even did some work on GDI graphics (and I couldn't find this material in ANY other book on the WEB that I looked at in the book store). The book ends with a couple of good WEB service examples, but I haven't gotten to writing them yet. Well, the book is about 500 pages... Pretty good deal for what I got out of it.
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Summary: Whatever you do, don't mention data!
Review: I enjoyed the early part of the book. The examples worked beautifully every time. I felt I was learning about C# and ASP.NET at the same time. As I progressed through the book I wondered when they were going to get to databases. They never did. What about Cookies? They are not mentioned either! OK, no book can cover everything, and who'd want it to. But this one simply doesn't go far enough even for a c#/.net novice like me. In summary, a good starting point but you'll soon need other books beside this one.
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Summary: Fundamentals
Review: If this book is suppose to be an introductory book on C$# fundamentals - they guys got it right. I was hoping for some windows programming but I just learned they have another C# book for that. I found it to be useful, accurate and to the point. A good book.
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Summary: WEB and C#
Review: Just getting started with WEB, so I turned to these guys because their C++ book is so great. This is a good book too. I didn't know too much about C#, except what I've read in magazines.
This book got me up and running in no time. This book is really good if you have any kind of Windows programming experience (which I do). They show you how to fold Windows programming concepts into WEB creations with C#. What I like best about their books is ;the large number of programming examples.
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Summary: WEB and C#
Review: This is the third book by Pappas I bought. He expalins stuff in a easy to read way. I love C#! I can =now write stuff for Windows and the WEB. I am a student in a college in Georgia. My one professor looked at this book and might use it for the class next semester. He liked the book to.
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Summary: I liked this book
Review: This is the third book by Pappas I bought. He expalins stuff in a easy to read way. I love C#! I can =now write stuff for Windows and the WEB. I am a student in a college in Georgia. My one professor looked at this book and might use it for the class next semester. He liked the book to.
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Summary: Hmmm
Review: Well, lets start?
Chapter 1. The journej to C#.
Well, we are talking about Web Programming, right? Why do authors write about Algol, B, C, C++ then? Ok, 16 pages is not too much, but they are useless. Moreover, they say that C# was derived from C++ while it is obvious that it was patterned over Java. But Java is completely forgotten. Umm... You will encounter some very useful stuff like
"Hypertext - An online document that has words or graphics containing links to other documents. Usually, selecting the link area onscreen (with a mouse or keyboard command) activates these links". Cool!!!
Chapter 2. C# essentials.
From page 16 till page 70 you will find a lot of information, such as why C# is great. "Essentials" are not essential though. Say, classes and structures occupy just one page. Even for such a newbie in .NET as I am, this chapter was completely useless.
Chapter 3. C# and VS.NET
"Finally I will learn ASP" - that was my thoght when i finished boring chapters 1 and 2. But I was wrong. Basically, this chapter teaches you how to resize web forms. All the stuff from this chapter you can learn by yourself by just playing with VS.NET in 10 minutes. Do you know how to select a control? "Place the mouse pointer over any control and click once. Move the mouse pointer to the form..." Yeah.
And you also notice that authors use a LOT of screenshots. All screenshots are half-page sized. Say, picture with textbox, and below the same pic but textbox is resized.
Chapter 4 -5. Static control properties / Dynamic control properties.
Here authors teach you how to change properties (ya know, in that properties window). Be prepared for long tables of properties with explanations which you can find in VS.NET on status bar. Serious coding starts from chapter 5, you learn how to use events and how to add 1-2 lines of code.
All examples totally suck, I mean you will learn how to change properties of almost all controls and nothing else. In the end you will write a calculator which will multiply 2 numbers. 4 lines of code. Coooooool!
Chapter 6. Events. From 193 till 221 pp you will find events and their short descriptions, obviously borrowed from VS.NET help. You will not find any example; just empty event handlers and VERY USEFUL comment to EACH of them : "The return type of method is void". Thanks guys! What would i do without you!
Chapter 7. Processing web form input. 48 pages will teach you how, clicking on something, to change something. Be sure, that if your program will change image depending on selected radio button (3 buttons) you will find 3 screenshots which will differ from each other by picture and button selected. This is very useful.
Authors also will include all code, even that one generated by VS, also it is almost always identical. Be sure, the event handler code will be repeated on the same page.
Chapter 8. Procesing form output. The same stuff as in 7, but here you will show something somewhere... PP. 294 -295 are the best illustration:
they ontain autogenerated code, screenshot wwith browser, showing microsoft.com and empty event handler method. COOOL!
Well, this chapter also deals with DataGrid, DataList, Repeater and Table, with 1 example for each control... Just type the code; forget about any explanations or description of properties. Enough.
Chapter 9. GDI Graphics Fundamentals. Chapter 10. Presentation graphics.
70 useless pages which list classes in Drawing namespace, methods in Graphics and using WINDOWS Forms. Huh?????
Chapter 11. Numeric Applications and Conversions.
Very useful programs on how to calculate prime numbers, build trygonometric table or use bubble sort.
Chapter 12. Web services. LOTS LOTS LOTS of screenshots. Nothing else.
Well, im bored. These guys just wanted to earn some money, and they did that. The good news is that tthey did not place any screenshots on how to move mouse or close VS. Good idea!
authors just wanted to fill the pages with something, screenshots and autogenerated code was a solution.
This book says nothing on
1. HTML controls. They are just mentioned.
2. Web application life cycle events. Why there is on_load event handler? Whats that? Who knows.
3. Whats about session tracking? Cookies?
4. DataGrid et. al.
5. ADO.NET is not even mentioned.
6. Forget about security, etc.
All eamples are so lame, I cant find words. There are NO real wold examples, even simple login page is not written.
This book is junk.
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