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

Scott Mitchell (Author), James Atkinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 19, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0672318636 | ISBN-13: 978-0672318634 | 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 Publishing; 1 edition (February 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672318636
• ISBN-13: 978-0672318634
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.7 x 9.1 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: #70,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #61 in Books > Computers & Technology > Web Development & Design > Web Services

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.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

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

By Johan Steen

Format: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

By Zavier

Format: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

By James D. Dvorak

Format: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.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Active Server Pages Book ever create! March 23, 2000

By Ellery Familia

Format:Paperback

I have also read the ASP book for Dummies and I also believe that that book isn't even close to the quality of ASP 3.0 in 21 days. It's easy to understand. The Authors organize their work in a way that you just want to learn more and more. I finished the book in Two weeks and believe is the best programming book I ever read. (Believe me, I have read many!)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Stop searching, this book is the book. March 8, 2001

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

Just like you, as a developer I'm always needing to learn new lanquages and technologies. In order to keep up, I'm always buying and reading (or buying and throwing sometimes) tech books. This is the first tech book I've ever read cover to cover. And after doing so, I find myself wishing the Rolla-Guys could write on all lanquages.

The book progresses at a perfect pace for beginners and is organized smartly for experienced programmers to skip around. As I mentioned I read it cover to cover though. There wasn't any useless information to skip over. Every topic was real world applicable and exciting to learn. I also didn't find any errors in the code (of the code I tried).

Companion this book with Beginning ASP Databases(Wrox) to learn everything necessary for any very large ASP projects. Now that I started more "in-depth" books on ASP I can fully appreciate the solid foundation "ASP 3.0 in 21 Days" built.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, really informitive and authors replies to emails August 31, 2000

By Warren S. Wyght

Format:Paperback

If you want to know ASP, be able to use it, and have no time to waste buy this book.

When I started at my present job I had never even heard of ASP before, I was and still am the only coder employed here so the only help I had was Teach yourself ASP 3.0 in 21 days. I read it cover to cover in less the three weeks, I tried every practice and every question. I have improved the sites code and performance because of the training given in this book. It enabled me to keep my job and impress the owners of the company, if you read Teach yourself ASP 3.0 in 21 days you will learn ASP, it is that simple.

I finished the book about two months ago, now I am looking for an ASP+ book if these authors had written a book about ASP+ as well, I would buy it sight unseen.

There are two or three day's lessons I had to read over and over to really learn what was being taught. But even with this little inconvenience I think this book rates a five star.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great book for Developers and Newbies July 25, 2000

By Anthony H Kim

Format:Paperback

Sams Teach Yourself ASPs in 21 Days is one of the few books that is helpful to both the experienced web developer wanting to learn a new developing platform and a new developer wanting to understand some of the basic concepts behind web design. The 21 day system introduces a good teaching method which focuses on some of the basic functions and objects of the language before moving on to teaching how to use these tools to create an RDBMS.

I have developed primarily in ColdFusion with a SQL Server back end but having read this book, I'm convinced that ASP is a much more powerful way to develop an RDBMS. It's a great introduction to an object oriented web development language and is a great starter for those new to object oriented programming or programming in general. At approximately 700 pages, it's one of the shorter books covering ASPs with all the content you need.