Product Description

The friendly, tutorial style of Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days empowers you to create your own Active Server Pages quickly and easily. Using client-proven methods, and his award-winning advice to Web developers from around the world, ASP master Scott Mitchell provides you with an understanding of ASP and IIS fundamentals, and guides you through the use of VBScript and ASP's built-in objects, enabling you to create your own dynamic, database-driven Web solutions. You'll benefit from Scott's expert knowledge of topics including creating dynamic content, interacting with the user, reading and writing files on the Web server, creating personalized content with cookies, reading a database using ASP, and debugging your ASP scripts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #370154 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 800 pages

From the Publisher
When You Only Have Time for the Answers!
The friendly, tutorial style of Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days empowers you to create your own Active Server Pages quickly and easily.

Using client-proven methods, and his award-winning advice to Web developers from around the world, ASP master Scott Mitchell provides you with an understanding of ASP and IIS fundamentals, and guides you through the use of VBScript and ASP's built-in objects, enabling you to create your own dynamic, database-driven Web solutions.

You'll benefit from Scott's expert knowledge of topics including creating dynamic content, interacting with the user, reading and writing files on the Web server, creating personalized content with cookies, reading a database using ASP, and debugging your ASP scripts.

From the Back Cover

The friendly, tutorial style of Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days empowers you to create your own Active Server Pages quickly and easily. Using client-proven methods, and his award-winning advice to Web developers from around the world, ASP master Scott Mitchell provides you with an understanding of ASP and IIS fundamentals, and guides you through the use of VBScript and ASP's built-in objects, enabling you to create your own dynamic, database-driven Web solutions. You'll benefit from Scott's expert knowledge of topics including creating dynamic content, interacting with the user, reading and writing files on the Web server, creating personalized content with cookies, reading a database using ASP, and debugging your ASP scripts.

About the Author

Scott Mitchell is a professional web developer and the brains behind 4guysfromrolla.com, a popular online resource for ASP programmers and the 1998 ASP Website of the Year. A master of ASP and related technologies, Scott provides technical articles and advice to developers from around the world. As a consultant, Scott has built 3-tier solutions using Active Server Pages and other technologies for clients large and small, and most recently was contracted by Microsoft as a Software Engineer for the Office Release group.

Customer Reviews

an Absolutely Super Purchase! (ASP)
This book is well worth the money! It is one of the cheapest books of its genre but justifies itself above any of the typical 'pocket guides' as it gives a complete picture of ASP. It covers everything you need to know in just the right level of detail, including what you require to write and view ASP pages and how they work.

Before buying this book I knew HTML inside out and a small understanding of VBscript. Now, just 3 weeks later I can put together dynamic web pages using ASP which not only look good but work well.

I have to say this is the best book on my 'internet bookshelf' and I am planning to buy the sequel on E-commerce programming in ASP and one on Javascript too.

I promise you won't be disappointed with this book. All you need to know is a bit of HTML and to have read this book to produce some great webpages.

I thoroughly recommmend it 100%.

A must for any ASP beginner
This book lives up to the reviews on this page. Mitchell and Atkinson, the authors do a great job. I have been reading this book for 2 weeks now and I feel like I have been an asp expert for years! Its that good, and its clear and easy to pick up from beginner to intermediate levels
If you want to use ASP, this is the book to buy, just read the reviews - they ain't wrong..

How good??... Just read.
An example of how good this book really is. I bought the book to help me with my dissertation, within 2 weeks, I had written an ASP based web-site that not only worked... but worked WELL.

I recommended this book to a couple of friends who were also doing their dissertations. All of whom passed with EXCELLENT grades.

How good? Well... here are the grades of the people I know used the book: I got a first, as did 4 of my friends, which left one other friend who got a 2.i (with a EXTREMELY high mark).

I still use the book, my friend still use the book (and he works as a web developer) and overall it has helped us all get to where we want.

So how good? VERY good.