Customer Reviews

VBScript for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide)

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

This book was great-- from the very beginning you are writing scripts and learning by example. Everything is very conversational and easy to understand, but without falling into the trap of seeming condescending to advanced users.

I'd recommend it to anyone trying to get up to speed on VBScript. (As an ASP developer, I find it invaluble.)

If you're a programmer and just want to know what are the basics of html and vbscript? This is the book to read. It's simple and concise. I really enjoyed it. [It] is a bargain.

I generally love these Visual QuickStart Guides, but this one has so many errors in the code examples, I just can't rate it higher than 3 stars. Someone should have tested all the code to make sure it worked as advertised. Having said that, typing in all the examples and correcting the errors is proving to be a fairly decent learning experience!

Focuses entirely on client side scripting, which is only supported by IE, but does a great job at it. If you know nothing about VbScript and want to get a "quickstart" then this book will be perfect for you.

I agree with the guy from Texas, I should've got this one first. Long ago, I bought the VB Script in 21 Days book and didn't really learn a thing. This book shows you exactly what the syntax means and does in a very easy to understand, colorized format. Excellent buy.

This book is perfect for learning the easiest scripting language around and the wonderful companion Web site will keep you going long after you've finished reading.

The format of the book is good. It allows quick access to vital information. It also shows key/new areas color coded in red. I knew nothing about VBScript before reading this book. Now I feel I can write basic scripts without problems. The book also did a good job by not spending too much time on unnecessary introductory topics, like operators, etc.

The drawback of this book is the multitude of typos and some mistakes regarding Microsoft's Document Object Model. I found it frustrating to try some examples and not having them work. However, I learned a lot from fixing the examples.