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Summary: Careful with the good reviews
Review: People tend to rate a book highly if they already are familiar with the content, and use it as a reference. As a learning tool, however, Buczek forgets that the world isn't an ASP expert at about page 8 where he just leapfrogs into ASP jargon and stops introducing new terminology, and just starts using it. Very inconsistent, and very incomplete. He breaks the scripts down, but ignores about 25% of the code as though it's not worth mentioning. It's quite bizarre, save your money.
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Summary: The most practical ASP Book on the market
Review: I own probably every book written on ASP. "Instant ASP Scripts" by Greg Buczek is probably the only one that provides the practical tools necessary to actually create a dynamic web application. I am a beginner (no previous programming background) and I have found that the best way to learn ASP is by reading and writing "real code". Greg provides line-by-line explanations of what the script does. Presented in this way, I have found I can actually understand what is going on. Additionally, not only are the tons of specific scripts he provides for logins, auto-email, graphing, usage tracking, etc. very useful, they are easily adaptable to suit specific requirements. I think this book is great and was well worth the price.
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Summary: Empty Database for final Chapters
Review: It was a good book to read until you reach chapter 16, 17, and 18. The author has provided a database shell for access db and SQL server db, But no data to see and feel how the example works. Since these are the chapters that you want to see the end result and practice the functionality, you are left out in a frustration, and you feel that you are cheated and your time is wasted.
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Summary: What can ASP do for your web site?
Review: I am a self taught, self employed, beginner/intermediate ASP developer. I had a vision of "greatness" for my own site and knew with a little guidance I could create the site of "my dreams". I had a lot of "pieces" but no glue. Instant ASP Scripts gave me exactly what I needed. The book is very thorough in explaining (in plain English) each and every line of code that is used through out the entire book. The author encourages the reader to go through one of many complete examples of sites in his book and once you understand the concepts, look at your own site and see how you might be able to incorporate this knowledge to fit your needs. Explain, practice, implement the way all good technical books should be written! I went from basic ASP code to compiling Visual Basic dll's in one afternoon. I look forward to more books, in the same format, from Greg in the future.
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Summary: A Great Introduction to ASP Scripting
Review: Amazon.com Readers, I am not an expert when it comes to Web development, but I found this book very useful in finding out exactly what ASP scripts are. The author takes the time to walk the reader step-by-step through the creation of Web pages that incorporate ASP scripts, and also includes all the examples in the book on a CD, which can be used to build on what is shown in the book. I am entering the field of software and Web development, and really like this book. I highly recommend "Instant ASP Scripts" to anyone who needs to know the ins and outs of creating ASP scripts for e-mail forms, as well as more advannced tasks.
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Summary: good, coupled with disciplined practices
Review: The author provides cool ideas and even some quick ways to implement them. The book should be appreciated for what it is: an ambitious asp cookbook. It's up to you as the developer to apply sound architecture and clean code. What database you use, and what coding methodology you follow, are hardly the point of this book("Instant ASP").This book is definitely more appropriate for developers who already have a grasp of asp programming - its value is in its practicality.
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Summary: good for it's ideas
Review: The code is inelegant. However, the scope of the book and concepts that are covered is impressive (chat, basic help desk/hr admin system). If you have some asp experience this book can be quite insightful - if not then there are perhaps more formal/conventional sources to start with. It would have been nice if the author treated oracle rather than access.
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Summary: Beginners, beware!! This book teaches you the wrong way ...
Review: Advantages: Most of the scripts work. Some provide simple solutions to relatively complex problems. Disadvantages: Scripts are primitive. They can help to start, but cannot provide you polished finish products. The biggest problem is database design. Some of the design, such as corporate library, violates every forms of database design standards. Beginners! Please beware. It is important that you learn the right way to have a solid foundation to move on.
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Summary: Nobody wants this book!
Review: I bought the book because of the great reviews it got here. Well... I must say I was very disappointed. This is a NOVICE book! No database files on the cd, too much code and no "real deep" explanation and the examples are very easy to code (ie: you don't need the book to code them!) Newbies: don't waste your money and go read at 4guysfromrolla.com, learnasp.com, asp101.com, activeserverpages.com. More advanced users, this isn't for you also. The only thing you'll learn in this is how to write cookies and to a database... duh! :)
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Summary: Excessively simplistic
Review: This book would only be useful to ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. The applications are excessively simple, and the explanations are long. As a professional ASP programmer I bought this book for the ASP code, hoping to fond some to short-cut my own development, and learn some more along the way. NO WAY. The applications are excessively simple - not even worthwhile as a foundation for adding your own code. Wrox Press' Professional series are still the best in my opinion.
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