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Introduction to ASP.NET, Second Edition
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by Kate Kalata
Sales Rank: 552420
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List Price: $90.95
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Paperback: 800 pages
Publisher: Course Technology; 2 edition December 21, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0619216859
ISBN-13: 978-0619216856
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.2 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
Product Description
This is the next generation of Active Server Pages! Revolutionizing the way Web applications are developed, ASP.NET is built on Microsoft's .NET framework. Microsoft has added new functionality to ASP to make Web application development easier and tool friendly. This comprehensive book will not only tackle beginning Web Programming and how to create and maintain interactive and dynamic Web applications, it will also explore the Internet as an essential business tool. This book guides the reader from beginning Web applications, to object-oriented programming, to using advanced Web form server controls. Become a master programmer with this exciting new text!
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
I'll try to be as constructive as I can here because if the author is going to continue further editions of this book as well as her writing career, she needs to make major changes. This book was a class requirement for me and it was just so frustrating to wade through the muck and mistakes. Almost everyone in class was frustrated with the book. 1. POORLY WORDED. This should be rule #1 for instructional books. I had to ask myself so many times if the author's first language is English because there are so many awkwardly constructed sentences that create so much confusion. Two sentences next to each other lack transition that clarifies the connection between them. I had to stop so many times trying to figure out how one sentence related to the next. Overall clarity is very poor. 2. POOR TEACHING CONCEPTS. The book will go on at length about a particular topic or concept and will not define it until sentences, paragraphs or even pages later, if at all! Each concept/term should be defined and explained as they are introduced otherwise it'll be meaningless to the reader. 3. SLOPPY. Typos and instructional errors. You only have to look at how big the list of errors from the Errata is to know that it's almost appropriate to call it unprofessional. 4. POORLY STRUCTURED. Coding examples sometimes don't flow or fit easily with the text. The figures and diagrams are difficult to understand. 5. 2ND EDITION! These would all be a little forgivable if I was reviewing the first edition, but no it's the 2nd edition and I can't even imagine what was on the first edition. The pros: 1. It's a nice idea integrating all these elements like XML, Visual Basic, HTML, Data bindings, with ASP.NET. I just wish the book delivered on that. 2. I haven't read previous ASP.net books so I have no way to compare, however, I can compare them with my XML, HTML, JavaScript and Visual Basic books and the teaching methods of this book is just nowhere near up to par. 3. The cover is kinda nice. Look, I don't doubt that the author has a knowledge and understanding of the subject matter and the concepts. The problem is how she presents it. Perhaps she needs a co-author to handle the basic instructional writing.
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Introduction to ASP.NET, Second Edition
List Price: $90.95
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