Marty Hall's Servlets and JavaServer Pages Training Course

Rating:
Summary: Great Course!!!
Review: I owe Marty a lot for my livelihood.
I have used many JSP materials and I am sure I will be using a lot more in the future.
As an independent trainer and consultant, I teach experienced developers and consult on corporate projects. The consulting work come as a result of the training I give and through word-of-mouth refferals.
As we all know, the reputations of people like me does not last much longer than the previous course - which means that I have to keep improving my material and presentation else I am out of a job.
Marty's course is comprehensive and presented in a lively, easy to follow manner. He does not only show you how things are done, but more importantly why - it is like being there, with the added advantage that you can always replay the lecture. I have listened to the audio a few times and I sure am going to listen to it again.
Another thing: Marty is one of those few authors who have taken the time to answer my queries.
Well done Marty - it is a pity there are not many teachers like you out there!

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Summary: fast track intro, hits salient points
Review: I think this package is great. I would like to see more multimedia presentations such as this one. I would prefer everything to be electronic (presentations, tests, video, everything), and it would be nice if you could mark your place in the course electronically. There's a little too much video of Marty Hall waving his hands around (I'd rather be staring at code, hopefully with the parts he's talking about highlighted). However, overall I think this is an excellent introductory course because it not only familiarizes the reader with servlets and jsp, but also is chocked full of helpful hints, warnings of pitfalls, and guidance on good design practices.

By the way, the video won't work properly in either internet explorer or netscape. But if you open both browsers simultaneously, and play a few seconds of the video in one browser, and then stop the video in that browser, and then watch the full length of the video in the other browser, then the picture will look just fine.