Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days [With CD-ROM]

by Steve Banick, Smith Negrino, Stephen Walther, et al.

Book Overview

The friendly, tutorial style of Sams Teach Yourself E-Commerce Programming with ASP in 21 Days empowers you to create your own online stores quickly and easily. Using online-proven methods, Stephen... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672318989
• ISBN13: 9780672318986
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 603 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Good book...great Instructor

Good book...great instructor. I bought this book a while back and since I've gotten so much from it, I figure I'll give it a plug.If you've programmed in VB and have some ASP experience, then this is great book. A lot of the programming I've done has been within the context of a programming team. So, most of the time, I would work on a specific, limited portion of a program. For me, this book was great in that it guides me through the ENTIRE process of building a website by myself. Through working on the project in the book, I gained a good understanding of how to set up navigation for a website and also little tricks on state maintenance. (Coming fr. mainly a VB and SQL Server background, those were my weak points.) There are other little points that are too numerous to mention here. The style of the writing is clean and easily understandable. The author also gives alternative solutions to a single problem. An example, is the shopping cart. You are shown the implementation of a session cart and a database driven cart, and the pros and cons of each solution is discussed. Anyway, to cut this short, I've built a number of websites all based on the code in here but fleshed out with SQL Server (instead of Access) and broke the implementation up into n-tier by implementing classes and objects. But that really is easy once I got the understanding and foundation of E-Commerce websites fr Stephen Walther's book.I'm just wondering when Stephen is coming out with E-Commerce Programming with ASP.NET ... I'm sure it would be a blockbuster.(hint hint)

An excellent part of the teach yourself in 21 days series.

My experience in internet-programming was a bit of HTML and a bit of JavaScript. This book taught me everything I needed to know about creating dynamic web-pages, and how to link my web-pages to relational databases. If you have a bit of programming background and want to build your own web-database, this is the book to buy!

Best Book for E-Commerce Intermediate and Advanced

As an experienced ASP Web Developer and Internet consultant for over four years, I am often asked by beginners: "What do I need to learn to get into VB, ASP, SQL, Server-IIS, JavaScript, VB Script, COM, etc....". I usually give the answer to start with a Teach yourself book. These are self paced and call guide you through some of the most simple problems or applications.Sams created a very good book for those Internet startups companies and individuals. You will most definitely find most of your answers like personalization. A key factor in the E-Commerce industry now. On page 280 there was the checkpassword.asp file missing, but Sams has corrected that in a download.Also, I have to admit that the coding used is well-formed, neat & clean, and extensive. I'm sure that the example would bring new content to some seasoned eCommerce expert as well.For newbies you might consider another book such as Beginning ASP 3.0, Beginning ASP Databases. Even though this book is pretty easy to follow, it also assume you have some asp programming knowledge.Overall Great Job and the examples do work!

Another excellent SAMS - Easy to understand and implement

I had read the SAMS ASP in 24 hours book which was an excellent start to ASP. This book would have been just as good to start with and it is a lot more in-depth. Of course, the focus is e-commerce and you are taken through building an online store. The examples are easy to follow and the text is well presented and easy to understand (especially for people who hate technical books).If you are looking for an introduction to ASP and have not yet purchased the SAMS 24 hour book, consider this one instead. They do cover a lot of the things that the other book has in it. Towards the back end, they have examples of email forwarding from forms and other bits and pieces that are not directly related to e-commerce, but were the reasons I got the other book.If you are trying to build a full-blown store online, start here. It won't get any easier than this!

Very comprehensive on online store scripting

Everything you ever want to know about online store programming with ASP. It might not be a very suitable book for a beginner, but even you are a beginner, you better to buy this book as a reference point then to check out things you don't understand from this book.