Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 14 Days [Paperback]

Sanjaya Hettihewa (Author), Sanjaya Hettiwa (Author), Bruce Campbell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1575213303 | ISBN-13: 978-1575213309 | Publication Date: January 1997 | Edition: 1st

In just 14 days, you will be using ASP technology to create your own active Web pages and applications. You will begin by studying the fundamentals of ASP and then move on to more advanced topics, such as VBScript, JScript, and Perl. Step-by-step instructions and real-world examples show you how to manipulate cookies, ActiveX objects, and databases. You also discover the power and convenience of Microsoft Visual InterDev environment. If you want to combine the ease of a graphical environment with power and versatility, prepare to Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 14 Days!

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From the Publisher

Teaches the reader to create sophisticated Web applications using a familiar scripting language, such as VBScript,JScript/JavaScript, or PERL. - Teaches the reader the fundamentals of Active Server Pages, covering Visual Basic and Web scripting languages

- Create dynamic and powerful Web-based business solutions

- Active Server Pages enables server side scripting for IIS with native support for both VBScript and JScript

Product Details

• Paperback: 78 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575213303
• ISBN-13: 978-1575213309
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,763,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars don't buy this book, April 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 14 Days (Paperback)

I have been working in computer field for 16 years and the book "teach yourself active server pages in 21 days" of this same author is one of the worst books I have bought. I stopped at middle of chapter 2 and could not go on. The author's writing skill and organization skill seems to be very low. Starting from the beginning of the book, the author uses long and unexplained examples. Large part of the book is made of long programs without careful explanation. It seems that the author was too busy to create some clear and simple examples. After all, I had to buy another book. So If you care about your time and money, don't buy this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book for people with Microsoft Product experience, February 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 14 Days (Paperback)

I bought this book because I needed something to get me up and running quickly. Although I found many of the examples to be not particularly practical for what I needed to accomplish, I have to say that overall, the book helped me to meet my objective which was to have a web site that connected to my SQL Server database without using CGI.

In my environment, we are using the Microsoft suite of products such as Visual Interdev and SQL Server, so integrating the examples in house was not difficult, but for those not using these products, the examples will be difficult to implement. I had to "tweak" many of the examples to get them to work, so I would not recommend this book for beginners especially those with a limited knowledge of Access or SQL Server.

I do reference this book quite often when I encounter problems, but finding solutions sometimes takes a good deal of searching through the book. The book is lacking on topics such as Server timeouts and Database timeouts which I have encountered frequently, but the solutions are provided within the text if you know what to look for. More practical examples of how to use the methods and properties would have enhanced this book greatly.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, good if you need to learn ASP quickly, January 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 14 Days (Paperback)

After reading this book, I found I still needed to know a lot more than what was taught.

Although the book covers the basics, and I would agree, you can learn the basics of ASP in 14 days with this book, it was lacking in detail and didn't jump into the "heart" of ASP until a couple of chapters into the book. Let's face it: those who are learning ASP don't need to know about VBScript or the fundamentals of HTML forms.

Therefore, I think that more of the content should have focused on ASP than on other topics. Although the VBScript reference at the end of the book is nice, if I wanted to learn VBS, I would have bought a book on VBS.

Also, the book didn't cover databases (ADO) how I would have expected. It jumped into it too fast, and didn't cover anything other than MS Access databases. I would have liked at least a couple of pages on SQL: an SQL reference instead of a VBS reference would have made my day!

All and all, the book wasn't so bad. Although, in my humble opinion, it covered some of the matter too quickly without going into detail, I still learned enough to use ASP. I would not recommend this book to anyone who knows VBScript or to anyone who wants to know everything about ASP. On the other hand, I would recommend it for those who need to learn ASP quickly and for small-scale projects. As a reference manual, it doesn't serve much of a purpose, and that is what was most disappointing.