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ASP.NET: A Beginner's Guide

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Dont buy this...its mostly ASP and its clear the author really doesnt know much about ASP.NET. The tutorials are misleading and especially the chapter 4 VS example is way off the mark..Its a normal table not the web form one ,hello?
But the worst part of all is this author coding style is so bad its not even funny..I program for a living and if my boss saw something like this he'd fire the guy....
What a waste of money

I can not believe they released this book. This entire book is about ASP (classic), with little footnotes about .NET. If you are beginning ASP.NET, why would you want to learn about ASP? HMMMM??????

This book is so bad.

This book doesn't even attempt to teach you ASP.NET.
First of all the book is not even close to be "A Beginner's Guide". It's a good thing that I have a descent background in programming and it didn't take me much to understand what the author "tries" to say. However, I don't think that beginner could easily comprehend the content.
From a teaching style that author uses you get the feeling that he attempts to make an idiot out of everybody (the terminology + explanations makes you say "WHAT?!!!")
And of course, this book is as far from .NET as you can get. ASP maybe but not .NET. The author doesn't even attempt to take object-oriented approach in tackling the applications.
Oh yeah, by the way most of the code doesn't even work.

This book is horrible, it seems to assume that the reader has no knowledge of web development at all (it has sections called "ask the experts" that consist of really elementary HTML questions and questions about the web), yet, if the reader has no knowledge of web development, why would they want to read something specifically about asp.net? It references examples before they occur in the book, and it seems as though the author has no grasp at all on what he's talking about. It's amazing how this book can be as long as it is without actually saying anything. Any other asp.net book is better than this.

I tried about 5 examples out of this book and the only thing works is the debugger on visual studios telling me I have errors everywhere. Please avoid.

Bought this in a bookshop while browsing.

This book is poorly organised and gives information too quickly without giving the reader a chance to practice. Code snippets are incomplete.

Maybe there are some good things in it, but I'll have to buy another book to learn from and maybe go back to this one later.

Don't buy!

I wasted several hours on an Example from Chapter 4 that I couldn't get to work. In frustration I thought I'd check out Amazon's Reviews and saw a reader says that Chapter 4 is "way off the mark". I wish I had read these reviews before I got this book. If the book had a website that listed "corrections" to the book, I would have been more forgiving and continued on but I'm through with this book. (I've never seen a book get such a bad rating from several people).