Sams Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 in 21 Days

by Scott Mitchell and James Atkinson

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672318636
• ISBN13: 9780672318634
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A Great book for Developers and Newbies

Sams Teach Yourself ASPs in 21 Days is one of the few books that is helpful to both the experienced web developer wanting to learn a new developing platform and a new developer wanting to understand some of the basic concepts behind web design. The 21 day system introduces a good teaching method which focuses on some of the basic functions and objects of the language before moving on to teaching how to use these tools to create an RDBMS.I have developed primarily in ColdFusion with a SQL Server back end but having read this book, I'm convinced that ASP is a much more powerful way to develop an RDBMS. It's a great introduction to an object oriented web development language and is a great starter for those new to object oriented programming or programming in general. At approximately 700 pages, it's one of the shorter books covering ASPs with all the content you need.

Simply the best ASP book I've read!

I work in Educational Technologies at a University with a fantastic network. We run NT servers with IIS 5. Given this fact and the fact that we wanted dynamic, interactive pages on our web site and intranet, it was apparent that someone had to learn ASP.So I was commissioned to learn VBScript and ASP to create these dynamic pages, which, as you could guess since it is a university, needed to display data from one (or multiple) databases.So, I researched ASP books and settled on teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0 published by Sams and authored by Mitchell and Atkinson. I must tell you that the book is so well-written and easy to understand that I was able to start creating ASP pages almost immediately! Especially important for me, as mentioned above, was learning database connectivity, which Mitchell and Atkinson made so easy to understand. Within a few days i had created my first ASP application--a "Download Manager" that does everything from track who downloads files, to what files they downloaded, to automatically download the files after the patrons confirmed their choices! There is no way that I could have done this w/o reading this book.I have since then bought another ASP book (some sort of "Ultimate Resource" book), but I still keep going back to Mitchell and Atkinson when I have questions.Get this book.

This is a must have if you want to learn ASP quickly!

I picked up the book a few days ago, and from never have used ASP before, I finished the book in 3 days (I was very eager to get going and was short of time to finish what I wanted to do), and now I easily put together very advanced dynamic userbased websites with connections to databases. Needless to say that I finished my project on time. The book was excellent written and all the information was easy to understand and to learn immediately. I can't say it enough, one of the best programming books I've read since I started programming way back in the 80's on the Amiga. A huge thanks to the authors, it was a literally a lifesaver!

The Best Active Server Pages Book ever create!

I have also read the ASP book for Dummies and I also believe that that book isn't even close to the quality of ASP 3.0 in 21 days. It's easy to understand. The Authors organize their work in a way that you just want to learn more and more. I finished the book in Two weeks and believe is the best programming book I ever read. (Believe me, I have read many!)

Wonderful Book

I rarely do this...but I just had to because you have to give credit where credit is due. I just wanted to write and say what an incredible job the authors did with SAMS ASP in 21 days book. I am only about half way through and feel like I just graduated from a year long course. I have read ASP for Dummies and it doesn't even compare to this book. They did a great job and really walked those of us with little programming experience through the whole process.