ASP.NET BOOK?

micfau1091 · October 9th, 2005, 01:53 AM

Hey guys, for those of you who learned ASP.NET out of a book, what would you recommend? I'm not a complete n00b, I understand what tables, frames, forms etc are....
I was thinking about Sams Teaches ASP.NET in 21 days

Thanks in advance

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FatalException · October 9th, 2005, 02:04 AM

I don't want to second guess you here, but why ASP? There are many other programmer-friendly web languages out there... As for the book choice, I tried the Sams 21 days book for ASP myself and didn't care much for it personally.

micfau1091 · October 9th, 2005, 02:10 AM

Mostly because I've been a fan of Visual Basic style programming, so I didn't think this would be too much of a hard transition...

Would you recommend PHP instead? Maybe you can recommend a book on that as well :P?

Creosote · October 10th, 2005, 09:27 PM

I don't know of a book. I used to have a textbook in ASP.Net, but forgot the name. I just wanted to put in my $.02 re ASP.Net. Theres nothing wrong with it, it is user friendly, lots of people like it, so learn it if you want. Also, it doesn't hurt to learn a syntax that you may use for both web programming as well as thick-client programming.