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What is the best way to learn ASP...anybody recommend any
particular books or cds?

Can somebody wax philosophical on the advantages of
incorporating ASP with Frontpage...
 
If you can still get the Wrox book (used), it is a rather nice book. You
might also find the Mastering Web Development with Visual InterDev CD
program from Microsoft (used) or the corresponding Mastering Book (not sure
if it is still in print). These should all be decently priced by now, as
ASP.NET is the rage.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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You can learn about ASP at my web site (http://www.takempis.com). At least
it should give you enough of a start to see whether you want to continue in
that direction.
Can somebody wax philosophical on the advantages of
incorporating ASP with Frontpage...
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FrontPage is a toolkit for developing and managing web sites and web pages.
ASP is a technology which enables the developer to use server-side scripting
to logically determine the output or HTML of the Response from the web
server for a Request for an ASP page. It enables the web programmer to
create interactive web pages that are composed not of static content, but
dynamic, interactive content, much like any other application.

In other words, there is no "advantage of incorporating ASP with FrontPage."
Both are tools. There is no advantage (or sense) to incorporating a hammer
with a back hoe. When you are going to build a house, you don't go out and
figure out what tools you are going to use first. You figure out what the
house's features are going to be, and then you determine what tools you will
need to build it. That would be the logical approach to your question.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
 
What is the best way to learn ASP...anybody recommend any
particular books or cds?
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In addition to the other excellent suggestions you may want to check out....

www.asp101.com

There are some excellent forums out there. Many think that:

www.4guysfromrolla.com

is one of the best.

Another good asp site is: www.aspin.com

You can find a lot of resources there.... code to study.... complete asp
applications to learn from etc. The one disclaimer, of course, is that you
may see lots of different types of code (some good and some bad) but is
something works well and meets a need it might be worth studying.

And.... you can always do a google search on asp.... and find a lot of
returns.

You will get a lot of opinions about whether to start on asp or asp.net.
There has been some excellent debate here in this newsgroup on the subject.
Some really excellent folks thing that anyone should not waste time on asp
and go straight to asp.net.

My opinion is this.... learning asp.net will require and pretty solid
investment in one of the Visual Studio languages and that can be a daunting
task even for an experienced programmer. If you are up for it.... GO FOR IT.
Just know going in that it is going to take time and effort and time and
effort and time and effort... well you get the picture. :)

But then again... that is just my opinion. For me, if you want to be
productive quicker, go with asp as it does not require as much of an
investment into a development package, as does asp.net. But there are other
MUCH better and more skilled people here that will disagree, so again, just
my opinion.

What ever path you take.... go for it.. you can do it!!!!!!!!

Best to you.......
Tom Gahagan
 
Cowboy,

Is it worth learning ASP, or concentrate on ASP.NET?

What is the difference between the two?

Thanks for answering!
PG
 
Pretty Girl said:
What is the best way to learn ASP...anybody recommend any
particular books or cds?

Can somebody wax philosophical on the advantages of
incorporating ASP with Frontpage...
Click to expand...

Just go to www.google.com and type in "asp tutorial", you will get 2,440,000
hits! Don't waste you money on a book, even a used book. Books are passe -
everything you want to know is on the net. If you have a particular question
you can google that and get an answer 19 times out of 20. I've learned
everything I know about HTML, CSS, ASP, Javascript, SQL databases (And now
make my living using them) from googling and using newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general is very good. ASP.Net is a more
advanced way of doing the same thing. If you are bright and keen and have
some object oriented programming experience then go with it, it is the wave
of the future - maybe. (I should add that I was a C and C++ programmer with
15 years experience before I embarked on becoming an internet programmer - I
can't imagine starting from scratch without all that programming and
database experience already under my belt)

Good Luck!
 
ASP is much easier to use than ASP.Net. However, ASP.Net is much more
powerful than ASP. ASP is a scripted technology, and procedural in nature.
ASP.Net is a fully-compiled programming technology, and fully
object-oriented. ASP is old technology; ASP.Net is new. ASP will likely be
supported for many years, however. Which one should you learn? It depends on
a couple of things, most importantly, how serious are you about learning
programming? Almost anyone can hack together a simple ASP page. ASP.Net
requires a good bit more education, training, and practice.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
 
ASP is older technology. Overall, if you are looking for career advancement,
I would focus on ASP.NET. For your own personal site, find out if your ISP
has ASP.NET enabled, or just ASP, before deciding.

Slowly, but surely, ASP is being phased out by many organizations, so I
would focus on the newer technology, if you ask me.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Think Outside the Box!
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