Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days [Paperback]

Scott Mitchell (Author), James Atkinson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672318636 | ISBN-13: 978-0672318634 | Publication Date: February 19, 2000 | Edition: 1

The friendly, tutorial style of Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days empowers you to create your own Active Server Pages quickly and easily. Using client-proven methods, and his award-winning advice to Web developers from around the world, ASP master Scott Mitchell provides you with an understanding of ASP and IIS fundamentals, and guides you through the use of VBScript and ASP's built-in objects, enabling you to create your own dynamic, database-driven Web solutions. You'll benefit from Scott's expert knowledge of topics including creating dynamic content, interacting with the user, reading and writing files on the Web server, creating personalized content with cookies, reading a database using ASP, and debugging your ASP scripts.

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From the Back Cover

The friendly, tutorial style of Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days empowers you to create your own Active Server Pages quickly and easily. Using client-proven methods, and his award-winning advice to Web developers from around the world, ASP master Scott Mitchell provides you with an understanding of ASP and IIS fundamentals, and guides you through the use of VBScript and ASP's built-in objects, enabling you to create your own dynamic, database-driven Web solutions. You'll benefit from Scott's expert knowledge of topics including creating dynamic content, interacting with the user, reading and writing files on the Web server, creating personalized content with cookies, reading a database using ASP, and debugging your ASP scripts.

About the Author

Scott Mitchell is a professional web developer and the brains behind 4guysfromrolla.com, a popular online resource for ASP programmers and the 1998 ASP Website of the Year. A master of ASP and related technologies, Scott provides technical articles and advice to developers from around the world. As a consultant, Scott has built 3-tier solutions using Active Server Pages and other technologies for clients large and small, and most recently was contracted by Microsoft as a Software Engineer for the Office Release group.

Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (February 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672318636
• ISBN-13: 978-0672318634
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (89 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #911,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

As editor and main contributor to 4GuysFromRolla.com, a popular ASP/ASP.NET resource Web site, Scott Mitchell has authored several hundred articles on Microsoft Web Technologies since 1998. In addition to his vast collection of online article, Scott has written numerous books on ASP/ASP.NET as well as articles for Microsoft's MSDN Magazine and asp.net PRO.

Scott's non-writing accomplishments include speaking at numerous ASP/ASP.NET user groups and ASP.NET conferences across the country. Scott has also taught numerous classes on ASP.NET and related technologies at the University of California[md]San Diego University Extension. In addition to teaching and writing, Scott also is a software developer. He works as an independent consultant and has authored and sold a number of commercial software applications.

Scott can be reached at [e-mail]; his blog is available at www.ScottOnWriting.NET.

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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a must have if you want to learn ASP quickly!, April 5, 2000

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Johan Steen (Gothenburg, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Paperback)

I picked up the book a few days ago, and from never have used ASP before, I finished the book in 3 days (I was very eager to get going and was short of time to finish what I wanted to do), and now I easily put together very advanced dynamic userbased websites with connections to databases. Needless to say that I finished my project on time. The book was excellent written and all the information was easy to understand and to learn immediately. I can't say it enough, one of the best programming books I've read since I started programming way back in the 80's on the Amiga. A huge thanks to the authors, it was a literally a lifesaver!

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Book, February 24, 2000

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Zavier (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Paperback)

I rarely do this...but I just had to because you have to give credit where credit is due. I just wanted to write and say what an incredible job the authors did with SAMS ASP in 21 days book. I am only about half way through and feel like I just graduated from a year long course. I have read ASP for Dummies and it doesn't even compare to this book. They did a great job and really walked those of us with little programming experience through the whole process.

59 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best ASP book I've read!, July 17, 2000

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James D. Dvorak (Edmond, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Paperback)

I work in Educational Technologies at a University with a fantastic network. We run NT servers with IIS 5. Given this fact and the fact that we wanted dynamic, interactive pages on our web site and intranet, it was apparent that someone had to learn ASP.

So I was commissioned to learn VBScript and ASP to create these dynamic pages, which, as you could guess since it is a university, needed to display data from one (or multiple) databases.

So, I researched ASP books and settled on teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 published by Sams and authored by Mitchell and Atkinson. I must tell you that the book is so well-written and easy to understand that I was able to start creating ASP pages almost immediately! Especially important for me, as mentioned above, was learning database connectivity, which Mitchell and Atkinson made so easy to understand. Within a few days i had created my first ASP application--a "Download Manager" that does everything from track who downloads files, to what files they downloaded, to automatically download the files after the patrons confirmed their choices! There is no way that I could have done this w/o reading this book.

I have since then bought another ASP book (some sort of "Ultimate Resource" book), but I still keep going back to Mitchell and Atkinson when I have questions.

Get this book.