Teach Yourself Active Server Pages in 14 Days (Paperback)

~ (Author), Kelly Held (Author)

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Product Description

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!

• 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

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 (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575213303
• ISBN-13: 978-1575213309
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,252,412 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars STOP!, July 31, 1998

By A Customer

This is a really really bad book. I know Cold Fusion, so I was able to get started rather quickly, but this book-- ooh, let me tell you. One page on microsoft's site helped me considerably more. I'm gonna go and buy something else now. What a waste.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I would probably NOT recommend this book to any programmer., November 18, 1997

By A Customer

I must agree with the other comments made about this book. I do not feel that this book was worth my money at all. I wish I would have read this before I bought and saved myself the $30 some dollars it cost. I is not until like the forth or fifth week before you really start getting into the meat of the program! And the most important reason I purchased the book was to get experience with dynamically driven (database) websites. This book is extremely lacking in the true power of ASP.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars At the end of 14 days you just feel dirty., October 10, 1997

By A Customer

As fate would have it, I needed to learn and implement Active Server Pages in
considerably less than 14 days. Of course, Teach Yourself Ative Server Pages in 14 Days seemed like the most logical choice for research on the topic. What I found, however, was a text significantly lacking in all the condensed usefulness I've grown to expect from the "Teach Yourself... In X Days" line of books. One entire day is spent installing the server software! The next few days largely cover the same material, passing cookies and illustrating the addition of relatively simple logical loops and branches to your code. When the text reaches the topic of database connectivity - perhaps the greatest strength of ASP code - it provides a cursory summation of the technology and then introduces Microsoft's Visual Interdev! To me, this was no different than reading a text about HTML, only to be directed to FrontPage or PageMill when I reached the topic of tables or frames.

In conclusion, it would take a great text to communicate an understanding of ASP to the reader. This is not a great text.