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Summary: The worst textbook in the world
Review: I am up to the 2nd chapter of this book and it is virtually impossible to read. This English in this book is very poor. No one should have to use this book as a textbook for their subject. This book would get a grade of 0% on an exam. If you want to learn ASP.NET use a book from another publisher.
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Summary: Not terrible but not great
Review: I am using this book for a class on ASP.net, so I didn't have much choice, but to buy the book. However, working through it I've learned alot. There are some problems I've run into though. For example when it says put some code into the Option tag, the author is assuming I know where to find the option tag. After quickly finding the option tag, I debugged fo 10 minutes before my teacher showed me that I had put the code in the wrong place.
Also, There is no indication here that this is the first edition or second edition. This is good information to have, since my class requires the second edition.
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Summary: Learning ASP.NET
Review: Ok...so this book must not be so great. Does anyone have any other suggestions on books that will help me learn ASP.NET?? I'm taking a class next semester but I will basically have to teach it to myself as the "instructor" is not so good.
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Summary: I need this book
Review: This book is not good in some aspects - but rookie will need it, mainly because there is really no good beginner books out there for us rookies - and I have tried Wrox, MS press, Dummies - plus a host of other books that I eventually give up because - somehow or rather - they get too deep and lost me. Together with Jim Buyens "Web Database Development Step by Step", this book kind of help me build confident. Jim Buyens book try to do everything via hand coding, and this book use an opposite approach - it use a step by step guide you via the GUI to do things whenever possible - nothing wrong with this approach - this is in the right spirit of "Visual", and we non-programmer who has phobia looking at the html code welcome this approach. Oh, it is true that the explanation and discussion in this book is done in a way that if you do not already know them you will be lost - but I have no problem with that since I have struggled with quite a few ASP.NET books in the past year. To be honest, even if you know the subject matter well - sometime you are puzzle at what they are talking about. However, I really don't read this book page to page - I just browse to the step by step portion and go thru the exercise. It doesn't make me expert, but it often teach me simple things that otherwise I will never learn elsewhere.
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Summary: I need this book
Review: This book was obviously geared more towards web designers than hard code techies. The author assumes that you have a good grasp of HTML and focuses primarily on introducing the reader to server side programming concepts and getting comfortable with the Visual Studio interface. As the previous reviewer noted, the teaching style is similar to the Visual Quickstart series where you learn by typing.
The good points:
- Complex topics like web services and the ADO.NET framework are explained in a manner that an experienced developer like me who is unfamiliar with server side programming can easily understand.
- The case studies and sample projects are also pretty good tools to get you acclimated with the features of Visual Studio .NET
The bad points:
- Too many typos
- Too much emphasis is placed on using the GUI to build your application
- Coverage on some topics (e.g Visual Basic and C#, custom validators and control events) are basically non-existent
- Not enough focus on code behind the page
Conclusion:
A good book to get started with but by no means a hardcore reference book. I started with this book and supplemented my knowledge with Scott Mitchell's ASP.NET Web Controls and Jesse Liberty's Programming ASP.NETFinal grade 2.75 - 3 stars
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Summary: Come on, it wasn't that bad!
Review: This book was obviously geared more towards web designers than hard code techies. The author assumes that you have a good grasp of HTML and focuses primarily on introducing the reader to server side programming concepts and getting comfortable with the Visual Studio interface. As the previous reviewer noted, the teaching style is similar to the Visual Quickstart series where you learn by typing.
The good points:
- Complex topics like web services and the ADO.NET framework are explained in a manner that an experienced developer like me who is unfamiliar with server side programming can easily understand.
- The case studies and sample projects are also pretty good tools to get you acclimated with the features of Visual Studio .NET
The bad points:
- Too many typos
- Too much emphasis is placed on using the GUI to build your application
- Coverage on some topics (e.g Visual Basic and C#, custom validators and control events) are basically non-existent
- Not enough focus on code behind the page
Conclusion:
A good book to get started with but by no means a hardcore reference book. I started with this book and supplemented my knowledge with Scott Mitchell's ASP.NET Web Controls and Jesse Liberty's Programming ASP.NET Final grade 2.75 - 3 stars
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Summary: One of the Worst Programming Books Ever
Review: What a waste of my money! This book didn't help me learn ASP.NET hardly at all. Why? Well, I'll give you several reasons. First of all, the teaching method is brainless. The author tells you to click here and click there, but barely any reasoning is ever given for why you're doing what you're doing. In the end, you have more questions than answers. The other major problem is that the explanations that are in the book are horrible and disjointed. Concepts and terms are referenced as if the reader already knows them--even though they aren't explained until later on. And let's not forget the typos and poor English that dot this book. Was this even edited before going to press? I am so completely dissatisfied with this textbook it's not even funny. It's not valuable for anything except maybe firewood. Total thumbs down! =(
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