Active Server Pages 3.0 from Scratch [With CDROM]

by Nicholas Chase

In this work, Nicholas Chase takes novice Web programmers through the process of planning, designing, and building a Web site using Active Server Pages. The reader can create an online magazine that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789722615
• ISBN13: 9780789722614
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The pen is mightier than the sword!

An excellent and productive beginning!With all the anti-Microsoft sentiment flying around these days, few of us appreciate and understand the joke. Make it simple, dummy! It is easy to make it hard, but very difficult to make things simple. And, in the world of simplicity, NT is above UNIX, ASP is above pearl or JSP. In line with the 'keep it simple!' philosopy(which actually makes your rich as well), is Nicholas Chase. His book, Active Server Pages 3.0 from scratch, has allowed me to be productive in interacting with my web server and databases within days. If you are interested in being productive very fast, Nick's book is the one. People don't have the time for cryptic codes and gigantic books, they have business to run. This book will definitly allow you to do just that.The pen is surely mightier than the sword!

Only comes once in a while

I haven't read any good example book since the original core java book. This is a good starting book for learning ASP. Although there are many typos, but it's still a good book. I took few of the examples from the book, modified a bit, and incorporated into our company web site. It servers the purpose well.

Great for Beginners

This book takes you from start to finish on an ASP project. It is a great learning tool for beginners, I highly recommend it if you are new to Active Server pages, web scripting and database interactivity.

Excellent Learning Tool!

I personally love "by example" books and this book is certainly that. What better way to learn than having ASP concepts explained in the context of an actual web-site? Nicholas Chase has done an excellent job in defining what you are going to do, explaining how to do it, and then stepping you through the explanation. It's a perfect starting point for learning ASP and VBScript.

A good book for asp database developers!

This book certainly is not for novice reader. However, this book covers some areas which will certainly be very helpful to beginners as well as intermediate level database developers. There are very good examples in this book which can be used in a variety of ways. I was really impressed with chapters 5 and 7. Not very many books show such examples. For example, in chapter 7, it shows you how to update multiple records (updating quantity in a shopping cart) by using very simple sql statements. Certainly there are some typos in this book. Personally, if I want to test something, I like to type the codes myself rather than using codes from the CDs. This way I can ignore the codes which will not serve my purpose. Overall, this is a very good book for asp database developers.