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As an author with more than 17 years of higher education experience, Kate Kalata's wide range of work experience includes instructional development, online course development, web programming, and project management. As a pioneer in Web development technologies, she created and taught many of the advanced courses in Web development in the Web certificate programs at Oakton Community College. She is pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership at Western Michigan University. Her current research is on the development of Web careers into a profession and curriculum development and web standards for Web technologies. She is currently the Coordinator of Course Development for the School of Online Learning at Park University (Parkville, MO), where she is also an online adjunct faculty for the Information and Computer Science Department and has developed their online web development courses.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Frustrating!,
By DLS (California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Introduction to ASP.NET, Second Edition (Paperback)
I'll try to be as constructive as I can here because if the author is going to continue further editions of this book as well as her writing career, she needs to make major changes. This book was a class requirement for me and it was just so frustrating to wade through the muck and mistakes. Almost everyone in class was frustrated with the book.
1. POORLY WORDED. This should be rule #1 for instructional books. I had to ask myself so many times if the author's first language is English because there are so many awkwardly constructed sentences that create so much confusion. Two sentences next to each other lack transition that clarifies the connection between them. I had to stop so many times trying to figure out how one sentence related to the next. Overall clarity is very poor. 2. POOR TEACHING CONCEPTS. The book will go on at length about a particular topic or concept and will not define it until sentences, paragraphs or even pages later, if at all! Each concept/term should be defined and explained as they are introduced otherwise it'll be meaningless to the reader. 3. SLOPPY. Typos and instructional errors. You only have to look at how big the list of errors from the Errata is to know that it's almost appropriate to call it unprofessional. 4. POORLY STRUCTURED. Coding examples sometimes don't flow or fit easily with the text. The figures and diagrams are difficult to understand. 5. 2ND EDITION! These would all be a little forgivable if I was reviewing the first edition, but no it's the 2nd edition and I can't even imagine what was on the first edition. The pros: 1. It's a nice idea integrating all these elements like XML, Visual Basic, HTML, Data bindings, with ASP.NET. I just wish the book delivered on that. 2. I haven't read previous ASP.net books so I have no way to compare, however, I can compare them with my XML, HTML, JavaScript and Visual Basic books and the teaching methods of this book is just nowhere near up to par. 3. The cover is kinda nice. Look, I don't doubt that the author has a knowledge and understanding of the subject matter and the concepts. The problem is how she presents it. Perhaps she needs a co-author to handle the basic instructional writing.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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worst teaching concept book,
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This review is from: Introduction to ASP.NET, Second Edition (Paperback)
I have no choice but purchase this book for my CIS 407 class . This book was a class requirement and it was just so frustrating for me to go through chapter 2 on the first day of class. Almost everyone in class was frustrated with the book too.
The wording are awkward . Some sentences makes no sense .I was so frustrated and I had to stop to figure it out how all this Sentence related from one to the next . This book is the worst book for teaching concept . I decided to bring the book back to the book store & I rather spend my $70 buck to my dog Buddha summer camp.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Horrible!,
This review is from: Introduction to ASP.NET, Second Edition (Paperback)
I agree completely with DLS's review - this book is terrible. To add further to his objections, the author employs jargon, abreviations and acronyms which are never explained, and basic concepts and mechanisms are neither explained clearly nor completely. The book is replete with errors. The use of the Tara Store concept could have been effective, but instead Tara Store becomes at first repititious and then rapidly boring. The chapters on database access and error handling are confusing to the point of obfuscation because the author assumes too much knowledge on the part of the student and/or incompletely or incorrectly explains the concepts and mechanisms.
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