ASP Programming for the Absolute Beginner

by John Gosney

Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Premier Pr
ISBN: 1931841012; Book & Cd edition (November 2001)

ASP Programming for the Absolute Beginner is designed to help readers with no programming experience learn not only the basics of ASP, but also the fundamental programming concepts they need to grasp in order to learn their next programming language. Offering an easy, non-intimidating approach to ASP, the For the Absolute Beginner series was designed by computer science instructors and takes a unique approach to programming. Throughout the book, you will be using programming concepts to create simple games with ASP. Before you know it, you will have accumulated a wealth of programming skills that you can easily put to use in real-world scenarios, including programming ASP Web pages with VBScript, using ASP to work with databases and forms, and working with ASP objects and components.

About the Author: John W. Gosney is a Web-Database Applications Developer working with ColdFusion, Java, Active Server Pages, and other Web-based technologies. He has designed and implemented complete training courses for systems utilizing computer-based training. John Gosney is the author of several books including Customer Relationship Management Essentials and Web Enable Your Small Business In a Weekend.

Customer Reviews
Learn ASP --- THE HARD WAY, May 19, 2002
Reviewer: rmaloy from New York, NY United States
Learn ASP -- the hard way: by acting as editor for premier press.

I bought this book because I am tired of the dummies/idiots/morons series' condescension, and found some solace in this book. However, the code is contradictory. The same line of code could be reprinted on three different pages and have three minor differences. Even the source included on the cd-rom is different than the book. To the "absolute beginner" these differences seem insignificant until you try to run the code and get only errors. I am learning ASP, but because I have to debug somebody else's code.

There are two great lessons from this book:
1) minor differences in code are crucial,
2) find a book that knows that.

Unfocussed, February 7, 2002
Reviewer: Fang Ine from Cairo, Egypt
I reviewed this as a possible student textbook because of the examples. However the examples are insufficiently explained, and the games ! Gross !! The books structure is unclear, hopping around with other web-technologies. I would have preferred a clear ASP focus with programming examples in VBScript and in JavaScript. The book by Dr R. Mellor is clearly superior for this market segment.

Excellent if you have no programming background whatsoever!, December 28, 2001
Reviewer: Dennis Hellawell from Clinton, NJ USA
I'm taking a course and we were given the book "SAMS Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP". Though I think that will be an excellent reference, I felt it made assumptions that I had some basic programming knowledge beforehand. I was struggling and kind'a lost. I went thorough every book on ASP on the bookstore shelf and I selected this one to help me out. I was looking for "Active Server Page Programming for Dummies, Second Edition". That book was out of stock and I selected Mr. Gosney's book. It's very clear with good exercises. It explains installing both IIS and Personal Web Server. It relates ASP with other apps like Front Page 2000. So far it the best, introductory book that I've found. One can pretty much learn without any additional instructional help.

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