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Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 21 Days

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This book does a great job at setting your environment for making jsp programs. You'll need tomcat, java development kit, text editor (textpad is great), and a whole bunch of setting up. This is one of the best books that guides you very clearly through those painstaking steps for beginners. I covered the first 4 chapters in several hours in one day and made a jsp application for a class assignment, and it was very easy to understand. It's targetted for beginners because it introduces you to programming concepts like loops, switches, conditions etc, java class compilation and execution, and java programming stuff. One of the easiest books to follow.
Having said that, if your looking for an indept treatment of jsp this book only has a few chapters dealing with more comples stuff. Having some programming language concepts is always useful, or else you may have to do some background reading if you don't know how to make a program to find the factorial of an int.

This book from the beggining just throws concepts at you, assuming that you will understand what they are trying to say. Then go over so many things without a thorough explanation of the topic. It shows you code and then don't explain it. If you are a beginner don't even think about buying this book. I read up to hour 6 but I couldn't handle it anymore, there were so many questions unanswered.