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Summary: Not the typical text book
Review: If you learn best by example this book is the one!. It's not the only book you will need for ASP but the code is explained in full.
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Summary: Structured very well, SQL and VB intensive
Review: The book is excellent apart from missing a couple of critical parts. It could have had a few pages on Access Databases and also it could have had a few pages on javascripted asp and the set up of it. As I am a intermediate java programmer with no VB skills, some areas where very grey when converting them over or just doing plain VB was difficult. Overall it is a very good book and I only bought it after reading the reviews on amazon.com. It is worthy of the 5 stars since most books cannot match the way it is taught. This book combined with some other urls (ie www.activeserverpages.com/learn/toc.asp ) it is very useful. I can recommend a book with this consistent teaching applied.
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Summary: Excellent as reference or intermediate developer
Review: An excellent book but not really good for beginner cause they won't tell how to configure the IIS. The Wrox Begining ASP do tell and it is where I start from no HTML experiemce. But it is excellent like they tell you the 5 objects ( Receive, respond....) Higly recommend both of these book.
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Summary: Think out of the box!
Review: An excellent book for ASP beginners. Greg gives a good insight about all the stuff that can actually be done using ASP. All the examples are well documented. Most impressive was the various ideas that come to mind while reading this book. Pretty exciting.
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Summary: Now, I understand ASP
Review: I have read a great deal about ASP lately and I can say that Instant ASP Script is one the best. It is well structured and the different elements are presented in a crystal clear fashion. This is the book I needed to better understand the practical application of ASP.
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Summary: Finally an ASP book with a complete set of working examples
Review: I have been developing software for more years than id like toadmit and have been doing quite a bit of Microsoft stuff since therefirst product that could concievably be called an operating system appeared in 1995. I have also been writing quite a bit of ASP in the last few years and "Instant ASP Scripts" is a great resource for beginners and experts alike. The primary reason for this is its large and diverse set of complete working examples. All to often, programming language reference books go on and on blabbering about the semantics, syntax, history, theory, proper style, quotes from the authors favorite philosophers, ... Then the examples they present or either trivial and don't help you with what you are trying to do or they are gigantic and take hours to decipher. When I am developing software, I want a book that has relevant working examples that I can understand in 5 minutes and will show me how to do the things I need to do NOW. Mr Buczek has delivered exactly that in this book and I look forward to more of the same in the near future!I feel I must comment on a previous review that made some disparaging remarks about Mr. Buczek's code. I seriously doubt that the code is intended to be copied byte for byte into any enterprise application. This is a reference to quickly find out how to make something work in ASP and its the software developers job to leverage that infomation and make it "enterprise ready" in the target application. I am a seasoned ASP developer and I am not appaled by the code in this book! I take it for what it is, a great reference! One of the reasons I have pursued advanced degrees in Computer Science is my frustration with and desire to move far beyond these kinds boorish attitudes and petty comments about style, design, methodology, ... We are in the STONE AGE of computer software and the most eloquent design, the most advanced methodology, the most perfectly designed code or any other object oriented / state of the art c**p you want to apply will get you no where close to developing the software equivalent of goat brain! Does anyone know if the goat brain code is clean and wonderful? After a billion years of evolution, its probably a mass of spaghetti code, but there is no doubt that it is "a full featured enterprise application" far beyond our current pitiful capabilities.
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Summary: Best guide ASP programming plus customer focused author
Review: The book is loaded with practical examples. Plus the author is committed towards the success of your workings.Greg is one of those endangered species(customer focused).From my recent communication,he goes beyond his book to get things done.I recommend this book for sure.
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Summary: What a help!!!
Review: THis book paid for itself with just the first page I used. Worth its weight in gold.
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Summary: Exactly what I needed
Review: I went searching for some help to spruce up my e-commerce site. This book was exactly what I needed with many ideas I'd never even thought of and clear instructions on how to achieve them. Now my site is more interactive, I'm getting more positive feedback and sales have improved as a result. Many thanks to the author!
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Summary: Good BEGINNER concepts, but code is garbage
Review: This book is definitely a beginner's guide on how to think about dynamic programming on the web using ASP. However, the code is absolute garbage. You should never put any code in this book into global production, as it will eventually fail and never be up to par with a full featured enterprise application. Seasoned ASP programmers should be appalled at the code logic displayed in this book.
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