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Summary: great book, but some VBScript & HTML exp. req'd
Review: This is a really good book and gives a lot of tips on writing good, efficient code. However, if you have no HTML experience and no experience with programming languages, this will go right over your head. You need a good handle on XML to understand the last 1 or 2 chaps as well, but those chaps. are pretty much optional anyway.
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Summary: A good way of starting asp from scratch
Review: This is an easy to read book, with carefully explained examples. It was the perfect book for me, since I appraoched ASP with no previous experiece. The examples covered all relate to common uses of ASP - database access, creating a 'shoping cart', tracking user sessions etc. I used this book to get me going, and ASP In A Nutshell once I was more at home with ASP. The one possible drawback is that ASP in 24 hours charges through the basics of VB script - some sort more extensive reference of components and operators would have been helpful, esspecially for those of you like me with no Visual Basic experience.
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Summary: Do not even bother with this book if you are a beginner.
Review: Unless you know VB Script this book is a total waste of time and money. I know some VB, but a lot of the stuff was pretty foreign to me and the explanations weren't very helpful. I've been told ASP is easy but this book sure didn't make it seem that way. I would recommend learning VB Script first and then this book may be more helpful.
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Summary: ASP in 24 Hours
Review: Very poorly written. The authors should pay you to read this book. With VC++ 6.0, chapter one, listing 1.1 SysAllocString(L"Hello, ATL!"); that L is a type cast to OLECHAR FAR *. The same orthgraphy is in the source code. Listing 1.2: it seems that the #include should be for Hour1Server which was created on page 6, not Day1Server. Also no idea what a Day1Server_1.c is but it is referenced later on page 53 in chapter three. Too many forward references in chapter one to concepts that they say will be explained in later chapters like five or six. This is not a stepwise refinement to learning ATL. For SAMS Publishing, a sorry excuse of a book. Best to pass on it.
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Summary: ASP in 24 Hours
Review: Very poorly written. The authors should pay you to read this book. With VC++ 6.0, chapter one, listing 1.1 SysAllocString(L"Hello, ATL!"); that L is a type cast to OLECHAR FAR *. The same orthgraphy is in the source code. Listing 1.2: it seems that the #include should be for Hour1Server which was created on page 6, not Day1Server. Also no idea what a Day1Server_1.c is but it is referenced later on page 53 in chapter three. Too many forward references in chapter one to concepts that they say will be explained in later chapters like five or six. This is not a stepwise refinement to learning ATL. For SAMS Publishing, a sorry excuse of a book. Best to pass on it.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: Very well done, in providing practical working examples of ASP. I have used this book a lot to develop ASP pages. The book however, keeps discussing topics within different OS's though (it switches from NT to Win9X) when needed. This makes things kind of hard to do if you don't have the right OS's to do the exercises so some chapters you can only read... But is good and I would recommend it.. Perfect starter..
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Summary: I'm not completely happy with the book
Review: Yes, you can get a lot of information from this book if you know nothing about ASP, but examples of code are too complicated. I was able to accomplish the same result with 38 lines of code instead of 178 that author offers. If you need good explanation and systematized information, look somewhere else.
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