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Summary: Best ASP book ever
Review: This could very well have been a great book for starters like me with no programming background, but not quite. My problem here is, like so many books written by several authors, the treatment of the sections are uneven at best. One section, like Forms, was very lucid, clear and engaging. And then comes the section on Functions which was vague and poorly written. It clearly shows that whoever wrote this section, is different from who wrote the Forms section. When you hit a wall like this, it just puts the momentum on a handbrake. Either you persevere through that section hoping the next one is better...or you just look for another book that will engage you from start to finish.
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Summary: Best book!
Review: This is a great book for learning ASP, in fact, it's the best, clearest intro book I've read on programming. It's organized, provides clear examples, explains HOW and WHY the scripts work... I was able to put together an ASP/SQL intranet project that actually worked within about 10 days, coming in with zero ASP experience and this book. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Dive into this book if you are just beginning ASP pages!
Review: When I was on the market for an ASP book, I was torn whether or not to get 2.0, go straight to 3.0, or try my hand at a Professional 2.0 or 3.0. I was scared away from anything 3.0 because I didn't have Win2000 and IIS 5.0. As it turns out, I learned plenty about ASP with this book, regardless of which Win operating system I'm on (or you are on).It is true what reviewers write below, this is a very introductory book to ASP. It assumes you are a beginner to programming. It also favors VBScript as opposed to JavaScript. But the most important part is that it is an intro and it sets the foundation to learn more (which i would suggest ASP Databases with Kauffman next!) I had no previous ASP experience but plenty of HTML and VBScript. This book was a good choice for me because I could breeze through the HTML/VB and concentrate on how to use what I knew with ASP. It helps you with the PWS download and gets it running (which allows individuals to run ASP if you don't have Server of IIS). It spends a fair amount of time on the big 6 ASP objects. However, there are a few other really great parts to this book. They give a few great scripts, including one that detects browsers. In addition, I really like the last three chapters. After they teach you about ASP, Ch. 13 introduces ASP with databases (including ODBC and OLE-DB), Ch. 14 discusses the ADO model (with SQL) and Ch. 15 integrates it all together with a big, 100-page database classifieds example that anyone can use and manipulate to something of their own.
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