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ASP 3.0: A Beginner's Guide

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This book skips over lots of important points making it very difficult to follow. There are lots of errors and the downloadable scripts often don't work. This leads to lots of frustration. Don't bother buying it.

Well this book starts of great. The first 3 chapters are very nice and straight forward to follow. After that though, the book jumps around ALOT, and is very hard to follow. Lots of liitle details are left out in order to save pages. The examples in the book are downloadable off the Internet don't always work. This book needs to be written clearer and more detailed. I was very very frustrated with the book and strongly not recommend the book to other readers.

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.

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.

This book is a great introduction to ASP. Since it's a "beginner's book" it's not going to cover everything you need to know, but it's a fantastic start! If you know nothing or very little about ASP, this is an excellent choice for you.

I am a newbie but not an "idiot" or "dummy". I have a some knowledge on HTML and have used WYSIWYG tools like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Recently, I started becoming more interested in creating Active Server Pages and I found this book very useful for an ASP "beginner" like me. I found Module 2 especially helpful with the discussion on the basics of ASP and "proper coding techniques". I'm in the middle of the book(Module 7) right now and find the explanations on Ad Rotators just what I needed for one of my projects. Overall, a really useful book so far.

My first impressions of this book were favorable. I quickly changed my mind. I found that the book said that it was for a beginner but did not deliver. I found that I needed to research much of the VB script and other aspects of the book in order to understand it. I got tired of it and returned the book.

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.

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.

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.