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Summary: Beginner book offers line by line explanation
Review: A beginner book that explains sample code almost line by line. Offers tutorial approach rather than in-depth reference.
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Summary: Easy, clear, consistent
Review: Although this is the beginning - in summary this book is fantastic. The information contained in this book is very readable, understandable, and usable for someone who is new to the world of ASP. I especially enjoyed Chapter 13 that teaches the ins and outs of SQL. In my developments, I have data in both access and SQL Server. This chapter made me much more proficient and confident with the use of sql statements. The sections on T-SQL for the SQL server are excellent. This book has helped make development a pleasure. Thanks Mr. Buczek!
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Summary: ASP Developer's Guide Review
Review: Although this is the beginning - in summary this book is fantastic. The information contained in this book is very readable, understandable, and usable for someone who is new to the world of ASP. I especially enjoyed Chapter 13 that teaches the ins and outs of SQL. In my developments, I have data in both access and SQL Server. This chapter made me much more proficient and confident with the use of sql statements. The sections on T-SQL for the SQL server are excellent. This book has helped make development a pleasure. Thanks Mr. Buczek!
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Summary: excellent
Review: As a professional web developer this is the best book for someone who has never seen programming language face to face before. The english expressions are straight forward, the book itself is very interactive. I have four different books on ASP but i consider this book to be the best. I love reading it , it has all what it takes to be a professional web developer.
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Summary: A Great Book For the ASP Developer
Review: As an ASP Developer at a DOT COM I can say that this book is a valuable resource. Greg shows us how to move to the next level in ASP. If you need to learn components or just want a great example of how to get an ecommerce site up and running--with all pages served up from a database this is the book for you. I also have his book Instant ASP Scripts! The CD is great and you can get your own ideas flowing! Way to go Greg!
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Summary: Dissappointed
Review: As the author said in the preface (page xiii), "The best way that you can learn a new technology or bring your skills to a higher level is to get your hands dirty."Well, this book did a very poor job of providing tutorial code I could work with. True, there is a lot of code reviewed, but not much of it was useable by itself. It was part of a much larger set of code and I got very frustrated trying to enter the code into Visual Interdev 6.0 only to have it fail. Even the code snippets provided on the CD in text files would not work as expected. Some required more coding to make them work and others would not work at all. The instructions on how to use the CD are either missing or are hidden so deep in the book I never found them. After struggling for hours to get it set up as a project in Visual Interdev, and setting up a database in SQL Server 7 (nothing mentioned in the book about this), I ran the SQL to set up the tables. That worked fine, but all the tables were empty. None of the ASP code worked with empty tables. There were no scripts supplied to populate the tables. The author should have made it much simpler for beginners in ASP to use this book. It is much too difficult. I realize I am in the minority based on the other reviews I have read, but I have been in the IT business for 20 years, have taught college computer classes, and have read hundreds of books. This one was very difficult for me to get through and not very intuitive.
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Summary: An excellent Coverage of ASP
Review: ASP Developer's Guide by Greg Buczek provides excellent coverage of ASP. It is highly valuable even if you have some experience with Active Server Pages, and want to learn more. It is the most readable programming book I have seen, and provides many real world examples. To top it all off, each line of code in the examples is explained. If you want to learn or build on your knowledge of ASP, you couldn't find a better book!
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Summary: this is a great ASP resource
Review: For beginners thru intermediate level ASP programmers, this is a great instructional resource. It is one technical book which is actually well written and one can sit down and read thru it from chapter to chapter and feel a sense of continuity. The book is chock full of great ASP code snippits and is quite comprehensive as far as the singular topic of ASP is concerned.
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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: I am a SQL Server DBA and I have quite a bit of SQL and VB experience. This is a good book to learn ASP if you are an absolute beginner. The code snippets are explained line by line. While this may be good for a total beginner I found it annoying after a while. I would expect this more in a "Dummies" book. Also, there are WAY TOO MANY screen shots that take up a lot of real estate on the page. I think this is more filler than anything else to boost the page count. Greg Buczek (and most other tech authors) need to take lessons in brevity and clarity from author Ken Henderson, IMHO the best tech author on the planet! (see The Gurus Guide to Transact-SQL). If not for all the screen shots I would have given this book 4 stars. Despite this it was still a good resource to learn ASP once you wade through all the fluff and screen shots.
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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: I am a SQL Server DBA and I have quite a bit of SQL and VB experience. This is a good book to learn ASP if you are an absolute beginner. The code snippets are explained line by line. While this may be good for a total beginner I found it annoying after a while. I would expect this more in a "Dummies" book. Also, there are WAY TOO MANY screen shots that take up a lot of real estate on the page. I think this is more filler than anything else to boost the page count. Greg Buczek (and most other tech authors) need to take lessons in brevity and clarity from author Ken Henderson, IMHO the best tech author on the planet! (see The Gurus Guide to Transact-SQL). If not for all the screen shots I would have given this book 4 stars. Despite this it was still a good resource to learn ASP once you wade through all the fluff and screen shots.
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