Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days (Paperback)

~ (Author), James Atkinson (Author)

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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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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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Product Details

• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Sams (February 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672318636
• ISBN-13: 978-0672318634
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.6 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.com Sales Rank: #312,653 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This item is part of The Sams Teach Yourself Series.

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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 (Gothenburg, Sweden) - See all my reviews

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 (USA) - See all my reviews

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 (Edmond, OK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.