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Summary: good concept book
Review: In terms of adding to the reviews so far, I would say that Reselman does a good job of introducing real-life programming issues in context. He walks you through those 'gotchas' that you will encounter.No surprise that the book has no javascript examples to speak of, focusing on vbscript. That's good at the intro level -- you've got enough to learn about without having javascript syntax problems all the time. I agree that it's a good reference, but because the examples are concrete (one is called 'using ASP to add a record to an ODBC datasource'). If you use this stuff much, you'll want to use functions a lot -- hopefully you might be able to reuse some code -- so I wouldn't put too much credence in the low review). In terms of prerequisites, I would think it useful to have some general SQL knowledge ("sql for dummies" is a great add-on -- you'll be using SQL for all data access, so getting it down is key), and some basic HTML as well. Other than that, I found it very straight-forward. Cheers!
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Summary: Very good for ASP newbies
Review: Read a good tech-book is enjoyable.
This book will save your time and money, because this the book everyone can understand, and there are lot of meal in it. The author was thinking while writing the book. He is the master for making the reader to understand what he is talking about.
The most I like is there are a lot of graphics and figure in the book to illustrate structure of ASP and programming code. One piucture worths a ton of words! -- It should be a standard in tech-book.
Thanks the author!
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Summary: It's just inconceivable...
Review: Regardless of how good the text in any programming book is, the book is pretty much useless if there is not adequate support for the code - particularly in a "By Example" book - which this book purports to be. The book contains no CD to test your code against the authors. Well, that would be OK if there were the support files online - like Wrox has; but NO. No supporting code anywhere. And don't be fooled by the "Where to find the Code" heading in the Introduction - it just points you to sample code for a single chapter. I encountered "internal server error HTTP: 500" in one of the exercises, and wanted to test my code to what the author had written. No such luck. Was it me? Maybe. Was it the code in the book? I'll never know... Buy "Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0" published by Wrox. They know how to support their products. As for this publisher, they don't have a QUE.
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Summary: 'By Example'
Review: The book had numerous code examples, as implied by the title. Specifically, I understood and was able to easily implement the Server.Execute method in my own application thanks to Listing 10.7 on Page 250. Thanks, Mr. Reselman!
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