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Summary: happy happy
Review: I found the book difficult to follow as a beginner to Visual InterDev. As an experience programmer/analyst, I am no stranger to software. I have taught myself several languages and software packages. This book just did not cut it as a teach yourself guide to Visual InterDev. The exercises/workshops often began with the assumption that you knew certain topics like Active Server Pages and ActiveX. Others started at the beginning but simply left you nowhere. Far too often it made reference to future chapters or topics. Chapters weren't sequenced properly in my opinion. There were database connectivity topics all over the book. And I found it particularly annoying that most database exercises were impossible to complete without MS SQL. MS Access is much more readily available and should have been the model. The graphics were plentiful and the author's writing style seemed to flow well, but the examples just did not have the same flow. It may be useful as a reference, but I did not learn enough to make that call. I still looking for the ultimate Visual InterDev book as well as the ultimate Web development environment as a whole.
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Summary: This will teach you very little
Review: I've been working for days in this book and learning almostnothing. It's big on overview and throwing tons of buzz words aroundbut doesn't actuallly teach much. The author spends incredable amounts of time introducing and summarzing each chapter but since there's nothing worth reading in the chapter, what's the point. Looking at the back of the book it has a scale indicating who the book it aimed at. It runs the gambit from novice to sub-expert and I'd guess this would be a good book for a manager to read so that he can know all the latest buzz words and some high level concepts but doesn't actually have to work with Visual Interdev. Also, the material on VB Script and ASP is very rudimentary.
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Summary: happy happy
Review: this book is a waste of time, i am an experienced programmer and have tought myself many programs (like I was trying to do with interdev) and this book goes through so much wishy washy feel good because the internet is such a wonderful thing bull that the main points and (often incorrect) code examples get lost
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Summary: Buy something else
Review: This book reminds me of when I was in High School and had to "BS" my way through a report with a specific page minimum when I didn't know the subject. The author talks about all sorts of distantly-related topics and barely touches the surface of InterDev and ASP.
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Summary: 21 Days is a joke!
Review: This book should be renamed Don't Teach Yourself Visual Interdev in 21 Days. I've been struggling through it for about 100 days now and I'm only up to Day 12. The organization into daily lessons and summaries is irritating and the lessons have left me with only a hazy idea of what Interdev can do. Practical examples and useful code are sorely lacking. My recommendation is not to bother with this book--there have got to be better tutorials out by now. I'm going to try Mastering Visual InterDev as I've found a lot of useful material in Mastering FrontPage.
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Summary: An all-time low
Review: This book was so pathetic - many of the examples simply don't work. I wasted hours trying to figure out why. The MacMillan web site has some updates - and THEY ARE WRONG, TOO.
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Summary: Book was great until Chapter *
Review: Was working through the book fine until chapter 8. The book doesn't tell you enough about what your going to need before using the software, all the examples are for MS SQL server. Well I don't have SQL server, thefore I cannot go past chapter 8. I think the book should of used access databaseing examples. Access is an easier program to get ahold of. Unless you have all the tools, NT web server, SQL server, Visual Interdev(duh) and other little treats, don't waste the money.
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