In Active Server Pages 3.0 From Scratch, Nicholas Chase takes novice Web programmers through the process of planning, designing, and building a Web site using Active Server Pages. You will create an online magazine that has news, interviews, and archives, a small memorabilia store, person-to-person auctions, and personalized start pages. Topics include planning and designing a Web site, VBScript, connecting to databases, HTML forms, personalizing the user experience using cookies, building an auction system, and building an electronic storefront.

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Incomplete - 2002-01-15
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This book is ONLY good if you want a jest of what ASP is about. But forget it if you are going into heavy ASP programming. It skims through the important to ASP and it leaves out many essential details. Even if you are beggining ASP it is worth getting a more complete book.

Great book for learning ASP - 2004-03-06
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I found this book very helpful. It walks you through a real world application teaching you the concepts that you need to write good programs. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn ASP in a fast, step-by-step, fun and easy way. Every page counts. The author does not waste time giving long and confusing descriptions. This is one of the best books for the beginner and someone who has experience and wants to improve.

Great ASP book for diving in a new project - 2003-07-09
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This one is a great example of a great tutorial book on a functional project from the ground up.
It walks you through all the way to a complete project you can feel comfortable with as a beginner in no time.
Highly recommended for any ASP novice.

Good for starters but TOO many errors - 2003-03-27
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If you are not familiar with ASP at all, this book might helpful to you. The best part of the book is it cover lots of things about ASP. Starting from writing a simple message on screen, up to creating an online store.
But all the code samples full with typos and errors. And after you finish half of the book, you are starting to code your own way.
Writer underestimates SQL language. He even says "UGLY SQL Code" and he types 15 lines of code, which you can accomplish same thing with 3-4 lines of SQL code, if you can create tables, choose column types and attributes wisely.
I bought this book, I am not fully satisfied but I am not dissapointed either.
My recommendation is, if you wanna buy this book don't pay for new one, buy a used one instead. Like me :)

Great examples - 2006-10-18
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Highly recommend the book - I have owned it for five years. I have trouble understanding books on computer languages, but this one makes sense. I had some HTML and database background, but no ASP. With the help of the book I created a small auction web site that was used as part of a charity fund raiser at work. Also used the principles on a couple other websites.

The book may be a little outdated - I am now looking for an ASP.NET book and I plan to find one from Nicholas Chase.

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