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Summary: For those who want to get to the point
Review: I find this book to be great help for someone who has programmed (like me) in another language who needs a quick start. I don't recommend this book for those that need hand holding, a "newbie" to programming, or want to finish the book in a day. I like the author's style of writing and enjoy the "Ask the Expert" and "Mastery Check" sections. Often times I refer to this book for pointers.
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Summary: This guys is a beginner as a book writer
Review: I got as far as the second chapter and gave up. It was too advanced for this beginner. A much better choice is Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 days.Fortunely, the other books in the Osborne Beginner series are much better. This book is an unfortunate bad apple.
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Summary: Good, but...
Review: I have found this book a useful complement to the Sybex IIS/VB webclasses book--this is the best description of how to use the Application object and global.asa that I have seen so far. However, the author of the Osborne book did a sloppy job of laying out the sample projects in this book--for example, frequently he doesn't even tell you what to name the files. If it weren't for this I would give the book four or five stars.
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Summary: Not really good!
Review: It's foucs to much on the programming basics instead of the ASP technics. I think the author should not write so much on the object that ASP provided. He should give more real examples on practical use. I don't think most users would need to use so much objects. If we are want to use objects, I think users want to read the references instead of this "beginner's guide". But the language used in this book is suitable that plain enough. And the speech is not so boring when compare to Wrox book.
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Summary: This guys is a beginner as a book writer
Review: This book has wonderful information, however, when the author lays out an example in the book it is not labled nor is it at all complete. The author jumps around A TON! This book is Not recomended to anyone by me.
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Summary: Not for first-time programmers
Review: Though this book bills itself as providing "essential skills for first-time programmers," a look at Module 2 should convince you otherwise. As the author explains, ASP is a technology and not a programming language, so to use active server pages you'll have to become familiar with a scripting language such as VBScript or JScript. But Module 2 will stop you dead in your beginner's tracks, when under the heading "VBScript Basics," the author declares in the third paragraph, "Variables can be declared anywhere within code, simply by using the Dim statement. However, it is wise to use the Option Explicit statement (<% Option Explicit Dim var1, var 2 %>) at the beginning of your code, because it forbids the use of variable names that have not been explicitly dimensioned." Good luck.
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