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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 . Active Server Pages 3.0

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 NutshellASP 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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