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Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0
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by Kate Kalata
Sales Rank: 274841
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List Price: $94.95
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Paperback: 688 pages
Publisher: Course Technology; 3 edition August 23, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1418837652
ISBN-13: 978-1418837655
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Product Description
A revision of the highly successful second edition, Introduction to ASP.NET, Third Edition offers even more ASP.NET development knowledge. It will familiarize the user with ways to create dynamic web applications using server-side programming technologies. A well-rounded Internet programmer needs to be able to integrate server technologies to produce web applications that not only interact with visitors, but also integrate other computer applications. Students will design and maintain interactive and dynamic Web applications within the Visual Studio 2005 environment.
About The Author
As an author with more than 17 years of higher education experience, Kate Kalata's wide range of work experience includes instructional development, online course development, web programming, and project management. As a pioneer in Web development technologies, she created and taught many of the advanced courses in Web development in the Web certificate programs at Oakton Community College. She is pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership at Western Michigan University. Her current research is on the development of Web careers into a profession and curriculum development and web standards for Web technologies. She is currently the Coordinator of Course Development for the School of Online Learning at Park University (Parkville, MO), where she is also an online adjunct faculty for the Information and Computer Science Department and has developed their online web development courses.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book was used as part of an instructor-led course, and from a students perspective, I cannot recommend this book. First, the intended audience is for a person with "No prior knowledge of programming...". This is really not the case. If you are new to programming in general and ASP in particular, then you will struggle through this book. The author has 17 years of experience, which includes "online course development". Having taken several online courses in programming languages (C++, Java, and VB), books in general explain what the programming code is doing and why. This is not the case with Introduction to ASP.net 2.0. The author uses screen shots for code examples that are very small, and the majority of the program "snippets" are a mix of HTML, CSS, XML, and XSL, all lumped together. In order to understand a concept, you have to wade through lines of code that are not fully explained. What you see in the book is a small screen shot that contains lines of code, and from that you copy that section of code into your program. Keep in mind that what you are shown in the book comes from a screen shot of Microsoft Visual Web Developer. The code is color-coded in Web Developer, but in the book, the screen shots are black and white. The text you are trying to copy from is often washed out, which increases the difficulty of trying to type the code examples. After entering the code, you are instructed to run the webpage in a browser. After a few chapters of this, you realize you are just typing in code (which ranges from 2 lines to half a page) and I never felt like I was getting anything out of doing that. The code you dutifully type in will be in the middle of a huge section of code. Your little addition somehow makes the webpage work. You are never told how this miracle is achieved. Some of the code does not work. Either the author referenced the wrong file when calling a class or master page, or there is extra code. If you experiment and remove some of this code, the page doesn't change. We as a class often wondered just what the author was trying to show us or had in mind. Without prior programming knowledge, it will be difficult tracking down the bit of code that needs to be fixed in order to successfully view a webpage. Hands on projects: Each chapter ends with 3-5 projects, and the more difficult case projects. The instructions given to complete them often made huge leaps between what was presented in the chapter, to what the author expected us to know at the end. I spent a lot of time looking up concepts in other books and searching Google to finish the projects. We as a class learned very quickly that in order to finish most of the hands-on projects, the instructor had to show us the completed project so we could figure out what the author expected from us. Our class was comprised of 3rd and 4th year students, all IT majors. I cannot imagine that this book was "successfully used in a variety of settings including online." If this book had been part of an online course, I would have dropped the class before the add/drop date at my University. I do believe the author is correct when she states that "Students will get the most out of this book when it is used in conjunction with an instructor-led course." That is because the Student is going to need lots of extra input just to get something out of this book. I would recommend checking out [...] as a companion website to this book to help explain the concepts presented in Introduction to ASP.net 2.0.
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