Active Server Pages 3.0 by Example

by Bob Reselman

Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: Que
ISBN: 0789722402; 1 edition (June 1, 2000)

Follows a logical, linear progression to teach the fundamentals of creating distributed applications using Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology. The four sections cover fundamentals of distributed computing using ASP; migrating from static web to active server pages; ASP programming;, working with ASP on the server; and client/server applications using ASP. Reselman is a software developer, writer, and teacher, a founding principal of Cognitive Arts and Technologies, and a member of the faculty of Simpson College.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

Book Description: ASP by Example assumes a basic knowledge of VBScript and teaches you how to create dynamic web sites quickly and easily. Using real-world examples, ASP 3 by Example teaches proper, accepted coding techniques that will cause fewer problems and allow you to apply your knowledge to more than simply the task at hand. Topics include: ASP, objects, cookies, applications, and database access.

About the Author: Bob Reselman is a nationally known software developer, writer, and teacher. He is a founding principal of Cognitive Arts and Technologies, a group dedicated to integration of creative, artistic endeavors with the practice of software development. In addition, Bob is a member of the faculty of Simpson College. In the past, he has held positions as a Principal Consultant for the international consulting firm, Cap Gemini, and as Platform Architect for Desktop Systems for Gateway. Bob is a co-author of “Practical Visual Basic 6.”

Customer Reviews
good concept book, November 26, 2000
Reviewer: Gary from Decatur, GA USA
In terms of adding to the reviews so far, I would say that Reselman does a good job of introducing real-life programming issues in context. He walks you through those 'gotchas' that you will encounter.

No surprise that the book has no javascript examples to speak of, focusing on vbscript. That's good at the intro level -- you've got enough to learn about without having javascript syntax problems all the time. I agree that it's a good reference, but because the examples are concrete (one is called 'using ASP to add a record to an ODBC datasource'). If you use this stuff much, you'll want to use functions a lot -- hopefully you might be able to reuse some code -- so I wouldn't put too much credence in the low review).

In terms of prerequisites, I would think it useful to have some general SQL knowledge ("sql for dummies" is a great add-on -- you'll be using SQL for all data access, so getting it down is key), and some basic HTML as well. Other than that, I found it very straight-forward.

Not a good book for Beginers, November 1, 2000
Reviewer: Lon Bliss from St Louis MO, USA
Being a beginner with ASP I bought this book as a tutorial to learn ASP. I have access to ASP professional Developers so I was able to ask a lot of questions in learning ASP. The code and explainations that are in the book are not clear and are hard to understand. I had to ask many questions. The code seemed to be hard to follow. The Developers that I have access to felt that the Author used too many 'functions' when they were not needed (this made the code hard to follow.) I am going to have to buy another book to learn from. This book may be good for refrence, but not learning from.

Good learning book once you have the begining skills, July 25, 2001
Reviewer: vbnet from Miami, FL United States
Good book, good samples and good programming techniques, The author is very clear and the concept is explained very nicely, he just fails short in the implementation of the component in the ASP pages, he explained very good but the componet was already prepare for that tutorial, I would like the author develop the component throught the tutorial and then implemented, at last that is the way it is!!! , as a web developer I am interested to in the creation of the COM, but I gues that is a diferent subject from the point of view of the author. A very understandable book.

'By Example', May 3, 2001
Reviewer: A reader from Minneapolis, MN USA
The book had numerous code examples, as implied by the title. Specifically, I understood and was able to easily implement the Server.Execute method in my own application thanks to Listing 10.7 on Page 250. Thanks, Mr. Reselman!

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