VBScript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide) [Paperback]

Paul B. Thurrott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1997 | Series: Visual QuickStart Guide

VBScript makes HTML more powerful and interactive by allowing users to add animation, forms and gather information from visitors. This guide follows a step-by-step formula, providing an introduction for both non-technical and experienced users.

Product Details

• Paperback: 142 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201688921
• ISBN-13: 978-0201688924
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,515,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The author of over 20 books, Paul Thurrott is a technology analyst for Windows IT Pro and the majordomo of the SuperSite for Windows (www.winsupersite.com). He writes a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE (www.windowsitpro.com/email), a daily Windows news and information e-mail newsletter called 'WinInfo Daily News' (www.wininformant.com), and a monthly column called 'Need to Know' in Windows IT Pro Magazine. He also blogs daily via the SuperSite Blog (community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul), posts regularly on Twitter (www.twitter.com/thurrott), and appears weekly in the highly rated and hugely popular Windows Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte (www.twit.tv/ww).

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a book for Programmers!!, December 6, 1997

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Pat Brown ([e-mail]) (Austin Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: VBScript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

Do not be deceived by the thickness of this book(it is rather thin). This book has told me more about what I NEEDED TO KNOW about using VBScript than all the others I have checked out. No other book that I have seen showed the form.submit method or how to return the trap the contents coming out of of a combo box. Too many of these books concentrate too much on all the theory and are not written like "I wonder how I can do this or that". I just wish I would have found this book first. I guess I'm saying is BUY THIS BOOK if you want to learn VB Script by good examples.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good starting book if you can tolerate all the errors., July 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: VBScript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

This is a decent book for getting started on VBScript and very basic HTML. Make sure you know HTML or have a good reference handy since there are enough typos and mistakes to really frustrate a beginner. (The CD that comes with Laura Lemay's ActiveX and VBScript contains an HTML book that got me through.)

I downgraded the score mostly due to the typos in the code like missing quotes and such. The section on Frames gives step by step instructions but leaves out a vital part while not explaining things very well. The book was obviously never proofed by someone who didn't know the subject and that is the target audience. It's not an HTML book, but if the instructions are there, they should be correct.

The sample code is available from a web site and the first one I copied did not work due to careless typos in the script code. I found it highly annoying.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too many errors in sample codes..., November 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: VBScript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

Visual Quickstart Guides are generally comprehensive and easy on the eyes. However, I found too many errors in the sample codes of Thurrott's book to warrant anything above 2 stars!! Thank my lucky stars(!) that I am familiar with VB5 and VBA to correct most of the code "on the spot" while trying out the samples. All in all, this could have been a good book, but from all the frustrations in correcting the errors, I suggest that no one buys this book until the author uses a spell checker and/or at least goes through the book a second time to debug his own sample codes.