Active Server Pages

by Keith Morneau, Jill Batistick

Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Course Technology
ISBN: 061901525X; 1st edition (August 3, 2000)

Part of the new Web Warrior Series, a cutting edge Web development series dedicated to providing coverage of the latest in emerging Internet and Web technologies. This title enables users to design and maintain interactive and dynamic Web applications with the server-based scripting language, Active Server Pages - ASP.

Textbook that allows the user to design and maintain interactive and dynamic Web applications within the server-based scripting environment of Active Server Pages. Cover topics such as run-time errors, cookies, ADO, ODBC, and OLE DB.

Customer Reviews
Not too close and needless to say, no cigar., March 29, 2002
Reviewer: Justin from Cleveland, OH United States
This book is not thorough at all when it comes to the subjects it supposedly teaches on. Every chapter should be at least three times its length with detailed tutorials. I can't express enough how this book explains little if anything. Basically it shows you what the possibilites are without teaching it to you - similar to showing a McDonald's employee a BigMac but not showing the employee how to make it. Don't get me completely wrong, it does have instruction/tutorials. Though, like I said before it doesn't thoroughly take you into how it's exactly done. Bottom line: This book is great if you're looking for a brief description of ASP and its possiblities. This book is bad if you're like me and want to completely understand it at the same time. I hope this helps.

Keep Shopping, March 15, 2001
Reviewer: MArk Bortis from Ontario, ON CA
Unfortunately I will not suggest this book for anyone else. If your looking for an ASP book this is not the one for you. In no way is this an introductory book, it even states this in the Intended Audience section. Yet its worse if you do know coding with variables, classes et-al; you will be incenced by the book. The code is very messy without any consideration for consistency (I can tell if one author coded one piece and then the other author wrote the next) nor coding standards. I really don't wish to read a book so filled with errors(proof reading anyone?). The code is sometimes just plain wrong and/or very messy. Example: When did SQL queries/Stored Procedures become VBScript; plus wrap-around for code is ignored far too often. Don't wait for the revision.

My head hurts..., February 11, 2001
Reviewer: A reader from SACRAMENTO, CA USA
This first edition is loaded with areas of missing code or incorrect code. Granted I'm not an expert (duh, which is why I bought the book as part of a class) but some of these scripts just don't work. In many examples and exercises there are HTML tags missing as well as VBscript tags missing. Very frustrating. There should be a solutions section in the back to compare homework with the actual answers so one can go back and dissect code at will. But as it is, I can't tell whether the scripts are not working because I'm not coding correctly or if it's because the AUTHOR isn't coding correctly. Can't trust the book for proper guidance. Shop around. Plus you should have a decent grasp of VBScript and/or Javascript in order to do anything here.

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