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Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
by Chris Payne
List Price: $39.99
Our Price: $27.99
ISBN: 0672324458
Publisher: SAMS (12 August, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 25,562
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 out of 5
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Great book if you have solid programming experience
Walter Nicolau's words mirror my thoughts exactly. I couldnt say it better than him. For the totally uninitiated this book is going to be frustrating, you will need at least a thorough understanding of one programming language( in order to comprehend the logic) and although a basic html is enough. I would say if you really want to master this book in 21 days, strong html experience is needed plus experience in script programming. Bottom line, I agree this book has too ambitious agenda, it would be better renamed "Learn ASP.NET in 21 days for ASP programmers" because it goes into detail about what is difference between ASP.NET and ASp, plus the author has background in ASP previously. I had only been traversing this book for 6 days, and was disappointed by the 6th day answer key. The calculator source code that is given was really buggy, to me this is inexcusible. Don't get me wrong, the exercises are great and challenging, understanding them would indeed help in reinforcing the knowledge that you have gained in each chapter. However the 6th day exercise would really take about 2-8 hrs programming time (4 for me) to get it done from scratch. Day by day the exercises in the book is getting more and more complex, so I figured I would just go through the answer key and learn from there. However, I was so disappointed finding that the answer code is way less correct than mine :o . Looks like this book was released in a rush ;) , I was even more disappointed that there's no errata correcting this error. Bottom line, if you are confident about your programming skills and not a beginner than this book will still be a great value to you. If you are a beginner, who has only made your own personal homepage (by notepad/homesite, not using frontpage or MS Word), then I wouldnt recommend this book for you.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Compehensive book on ASP .NET
If you want to develop applications for the web using .NET this is an excellent book. It is a very comprehensive book on ASP .NET, it is focused primarily on VB .NET, so if you're planning to develop using C# this is not the book you want. It's good for intermediate and beginner programmers. If you're coming from the traditional ASP world, the book includes "That's not ASP" sections in every chapter explainning the differences. The code is very useful and the examples are good for a basic exposure to every topic. It is based on .NET beta 2 and the CD only includes the SDK Framework beta 2.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Tutorial-Based Introduction to ASP.NET
I am a C++/UNIX developer and this is my first .NET book. It teaches by example and gives broad coverage of several topics which provide the basis for developing two full featured web applications. The approach is to teach individual topics in daily lessons and then at the end of each week, use the newly aquired skills to "flesh out" a Banking web site. It was important for me to have working examples as a context to learn new skills, but the book is light on theory and has opened quite a few questions that I am now studying (Web Services and Remoting in particular) However, certain areas like ADO.NET, I felt gave adequate coverage and I do not feel compelled to study further. I wish the book had more information on the .NET framework. This is a good primer to ASP.NET and .NET development with a broad range of coverage and good examples, but is not a great reference. It is a little too basic (just a little. . ) for an experienced developer, but the broad range of coverage and working exmaples make the book worthwhile. Few of the "reference style" .NET books provide more than short code snippets, while this ties everything together in useful applications. I would recommend this book to those who are new to Web Development and .NET but caution that this will not be the last .NET book you buy.
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