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Summary: Beware: This book is for Intermediate - Advanced users.
Review: According to some of the postings, this seems like a beginner's book. But the book mentions on the back cover of course that its for Intermediate and Advanced users. I do have to say that I havent really started reading it yet. But just to forewarn all of you. The Introduction does say that you need to know some VBScript before you buy this book.
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Summary: Great For Beginners!
Review: Although it's not the only ASP book I have, it's the one I return to again and again. This book is for people who who need the basic nuts and bolts explained so that they can begin to think more like a programmer. It would seem some reviewers of this book are more interested in proving how much they know, rather than giving this book the credit it deserves. It's well written..not too techy, but not a 'For Dummies' either. A great first book to get involved with making ASP pages.
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Summary: The best book on ASP
Review: Excellent content plus excellent examples!
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Summary: It's like a whole lot of really big books in one!
Review: I bought this book about a year ago and refer to it often. I've just spent some time on Amazon researching other VBScript, SQL and ASP books to see if there was anything that offered more. With a list of books in hand, I went to my local technical bookshop and spent 3 hours sifting through about 10 books to see if any were better. I had a compulsion to buy something, but in the end I basically realised that this book had most of the info that really big expensive books had. And usually, they just dealt with one topic (ie., a book on SQL that didn't cover ASP, a book on VBScript that had more of a slant on Visual Basic for Windows). For the meantime, I'm going to continue to use this book and supplement it with websites such as learnasp.com, 4guysfromrolla.com and aspin.com
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Summary: If you really want to learn ASP, this is the book for you!
Review: I really liked this book not only because that it's full of "must-know" tips and ideas, it's very compehensive having detailed explanations on each topic, great examples, complete reference of the programming language discussed and lots of valuable insights which I believe lacks to many of the books I've seen. I usually buy Microsoft Press products (since ASP is their creation) but they still lack of important discussions. But when I bought this book, I'd say it's more than enough for the price I paid.
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Summary: If you really want to learn ASP, this is the book for you!
Review: I really liked this book not only because that it's full of "must-know" tips and ideas, it's very compehensive having detailed explanations on each topic, great examples, complete reference of the programming language discussed and lots of valuable insights which I believe lacks to many of the books I've seen. I usually buy Microsoft Press products (since ASP is their creation) but they still lack of important discussions. But when I bought this book, I'd say it's more than enough for the price I paid.
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Summary: Useless purchase
Review: I'd call myself an intermediate web site designer, and this is the worst technical book I have ever purchased. In order to learn, a person must understand the "why" with the "how". This book explains none of that. There is no learning here. If all you want to do is memorize examples of code, then purchase this book. But if you want to know how and why the code works so you can extrapolate, even maybe get creative with it and develop, then YOU DON'T WANT THIS BOOK.
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Summary: Questionable content
Review: I'm not sure the author encourages them, but he certainly mentions a number of ASP coding styles that are sloppy or error-prone. Covers a lot of stuff, though.
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Summary: Good, but has some factual errors
Review: On the plus side, this book provides a comprehensive coverage of most ASP topics. However, some topics like Index Server get only a superficial coverage. However, I did find some factual mistakes. For example, the author advises against turning buffering on (Response.Buffer = True) because it will have an adverse effect on performance, but of course the reverse is true.
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Summary: Not Completely Happy
Review: This book seems to be a good starting point to learn ASP if you are new to it. This is not the only boook that I have read - but I try to read from this book before going on to some other reference material. It is a well written book - but like some other books on the subject it helps if you have a prior knowledge of VBScript.
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