Correct Group?

[Mary]

Please direct me to the correct ng for ASP newbies. Thank you.

 

[Martha[MSFT]]

You are in the right group. Start firing your questions

 

[Mary]

Thanks, can you recommend a good book before I start to embarrass myself? I
am considering both Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 24 Hours and ASP.NET for
Dummies.

I have no programming background but desperately need to understand
everything I am capable of in designing & building databases for the Web. I
appreciate you taking your time to welcome me.

 

[Martha[MSFT]]

Yeah, you can start with one of those books and then you can read "ASP.NET
Unleashed" by "Stephen Walther". That gives you a good grip of ASP.NET and
has lots of good examples.(don't be scared by the size of the book).
But I recommend you start learning some programming language too. Unlike
classic ASP, ASP.NET doesn't support VBScript. So start on VB.NET or C#.
JScript is also supported.


Hope this helps,
Martha

 

[Mary]

I bought Faster, Smarter Beginning Programming by Jim Buyens but am not sure
if it will be any good for me. I've only skimmed it so far. I'll hang on to
ASP.NET Unleashed for the future. Can you also recommend a good beginners
book to learn VB.NET? The one I have by Buyens is fairly old and is on
Visual Basic.