Active Server Pages

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Summary: Beneath Contempt
Review: Attempting to use this book, fraught with errors, omissions, and needless repetition, was bad enough. Discovering its selling price was devastating! Readers should be paid to use this book, and Morneau and his editors should be banned from publishing any future texts for students.

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Summary: Bad Choice
Review: I intended to use this book to learn ASP and teach a course on it. The first 3 chapters were sufficient, but Chapters 4 & 5 were awful. None of the samples interacting with the Access database worked, even using the samples on the cd that came with the instructor's book. Don't buy it, because you will not learn to interact with Access. The basic stuff in the 1st 3 chapters worked though.

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Summary: Bad Choice
Review: I intended to use this book to learn ASP and teach a course on it. The first 3 chapters were sufficient, but Chapters 4 & 5 were awful. None of the samples interacting with the Access database worked, even using the samples on the cd that came with the instructor's book. Don't buy it, because you will not learn to interact with Access. The basic stuff in the 1st 3 chapters worked though.

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Summary: Beneath Contempt
Review: This book is not thorough at all when it comes to the subjects it supposedly teaches on. Every chapter should be at least three times its length with detailed tutorials. I can't express enough how this book explains little if anything. Basically it shows you what the possibilites are without teaching it to you - similar to showing a McDonald's employee a BigMac but not showing the employee how to make it. Don't get me completely wrong, it does have instruction/tutorials. Though, like I said before it doesn't thoroughly take you into how it's exactly done. Bottom line: This book is great if you're looking for a brief description of ASP and its possiblities. This book is bad if you're like me and want to completely understand it at the same time. I hope this helps.

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Summary: A volume of mistakes!
Review: To say the least, this book will confuse you if you are new to ASP. I am currently enrolled in a webmaster program and even our instructor is amazed at the poorly written code that is in this book. Many of the examples in the book need to be debugged. If you are serious about learning ASP, do not purchase this book.

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Summary: Keep Shopping
Review: Unfortunately I will not suggest this book for anyone else. If your looking for an ASP book this is not the one for you. In no way is this an introductory book, it even states this in the Intended Audience section. Yet its worse if you do know coding with variables, classes et-al; you will be incenced by the book. The code is very messy without any consideration for consistency (I can tell if one author coded one piece and then the other author wrote the next) nor coding standards. I really don't wish to read a book so filled with errors(proof reading anyone?). The code is sometimes just plain wrong and/or very messy. Example: When did SQL queries/Stored Procedures become VBScript; plus wrap-around for code is ignored far too often. Don't wait for the revision.