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Beginning
Active Server Pages 3.0
by David Buser (Editor), Chris Ullman, Jon
Duckett, Brian Francis, John Kauffman, David Sussman,
Juan T. Llibre
Review
by Curtis Krauskopf
(email  )
For a beginning ASP book, there is no better
resource . 
Beginning ASP starts out by explaining web technology
and the mysteries that happen when page requests
are sent from a web browser. The section
on "Installing Personal Web Server 4.0" would
have saved me some trial and error if I had the
book when I was installing Windows NT.
Some parts of the book are almost too basic for
a professional programmer. For example,
the section on variables assumes the reader does
not know what a variable is and has never written
a script or program before.
What I like best about this book is the way
that it provides clear examples and then explains
each example line-by-line in excruciating detail.
While many lines of the examples do not need explanation
for a professional programmer, the authors assume
nothing and explain each line anyway. This
level of detail carries over to the more advanced
topics that the book covers, such as scripting
objects and ASP components. This level of
explanation works well for both the novice coder
and for an experience professional that is learning
ASP.
Another feature that I like is the author's
insight into what can go wrong and common mistakes
that the coder should avoid. Each of these
pearls of wisdom helped to prevent me from making
those mistakes in my own scripts.
As the reader will quickly realize, an ASP is
a mixture of Visual Basic and HTML. Beginning
Active Server Pages does an excellent job of providing
a complete explanation of Visual Basic and the
common coding techniques that are used in that
language.
If you've never had any previous exposure to
HTML, you will want to obtain an HTML resource
because this book assumes that the reader has
had some HTML experience.
My background with HTML was limited to some simple
scripts and perusing code generated by web authoring
tools. I was able to follow the HTML examples
in the book without any problems.
By using this book, I was able to immediately
write working ASP scripts and I understood the
purpose of each line of code. Within two
weeks, I had completed the first revision of a
prototype for a project.
For the programmer that loves to see examples
of well written code and to get explanations of
how that code works, Beginning Active Server Pages
3.0 is the best book for you.
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ASP
in a Nutshell
by A. Keyton Weissinger, Ron Petrusha (Editor)
Review
by Curtis
Krauskopf (email )
 ASP in a Nutshell is a classic
reference book -- it includes everything you'll
ever want to know about ASP and many things in
the language that you'll never even touch.
ASP in a Nutshell provides all of the parameters
and features of ASP that couldn't fit into Beginning
Active Server Pages. Since
ASP in a Nutshell is designed to be a reference
book, it does not spend much time on tutorial
details. However, almost every property
has an associated example and every parameter's
range of values is clearly documented.
ASP in a Nutshell and Beginning Active Server
Pages is a powerful combination of reference books
because they both compliment each other in the
areas that each book lacks. I typically
find myself first researching a topic in ASP in
a Nutshell because it gives all of the details
I need to accomplish a task. If I need more
information or a better explanation, I then use
Beginning Active Server Pages to help me.
ASP in a Nutshell is a must-have for your reference
book library.
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