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Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days

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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!

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.

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.

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!)

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.

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.

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.

I bought this book as I decided to create an ASP for a bookshop as part of a university project. The biggest problem with this book, I found, is that I quite honestly couldn't put it down! I had an ASP up and running within days of starting to read this book (connectivity problems aside - mainly due to my being unable to use an Access 2000 database as a DSN). The book is written in good, old-fashioned plain English and I carried it around with me everywhere (which was difficult considering it is rather a bulky tome). Anyway, the upshot is that my course tutor has been going around praising my ASP to high heaven. The only thing missing is how to page through multiple records but if you follow the link to (...)then you'll find what you need there.

Excellent stuff if you are a beginner.
For advanced junta, there are other hard-core books on ASP, forget this one.

Actually this book is only for beginners. If you know nothing about ASP then this one is for you. I am not sure that you will be able to do any advanced scripting with this one, but if you are a newcomer to scripting world or ASP then this is the ultimate choice.

Everything is explained in a simple manner. Starting from the basics of ASP to VBScript, Objects - Session, Server etc, File System Object and to Databases, everything is explained keeping "beginners woes" in mind.
There are lots of examples that help you to grasp the VBScript and ASP.

Must buy for a beginner.

If you want to enter ASP, then this is the first step. GO GET IT !!!.

I read this book without any previous knowledge of ASP, and after I finished reading it, I found I could understand more than I thought. The book not only has very good examples but also has a wrap up sample project every "7 days" that if you decide to do, will enforce what you've just learned. I think it is the best introductory book you can find. As a side note; I also purchased WROX Beginning ASP, and although I would also give 5 stars to that book, I'd suggest that if you want to learn and have never coded in ASP before, definitely this is the book to start with. If you already have some idea, then you might like to consider going for the WROX one which goes a little more in depth into some areas and you can always use as a reference in the future. You will definitely not be dissapointed about this book if you are a novice like myself. It begins with the logic to start coding in ASP(Control Structures) and it takes you all the way to connect to an Access Database and fully interact with it.