Introduction to ASP.NET, Second Edition

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Summary: I can't believe Course Technology let her do a 2nd edition.
Review: I have been in the computer and telephony industries for over thirty years and this is the worst example of technical writing I have ever encountered. I thought publishing companies had editors! Even if an editor had no knowledge of ASP.Net, they should have noticed the poor sentence structure, misspellings and other grammatical errors. It is clear that Ms. Kalata has no idea how to follow an outline, form a paragraph, use colons and semi-colons or when to use footnotes.
As far as the technical information, I am constantly referring to other books because her examples and definitions are so bad, I don't know what to trust. In Chapter 5, Introduction to Visual Basic.Net, there is a section describing data types and in the middle of the definitions she has a section on the Object Browser. The code examples in Chapter 5 are embarrassing. In one instance she uses an Exit Function statement in a location where the code would exit the function anyway. In another example she has a subroutine returning a value. If that is not bad enough, she was describing Properties with her example!
My biggest concern with this book is that colleges and universities are using it to teach courses on ASP.Net. I complaint I have heard many times over the years in the computer field is that colleges turn out programmers with great technical skills but they don't know how to write. Apparently the academic staffs that are selecting this book want that trend to continue.