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Title: VBScript : Programmer's Reference by Susanne Clark, Antonio De Donatis, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Kathie Kingsley-Hughes, Brian Matsik, Erick Nelson, Piotr Prussak, Daniel Read, Carsten Thomsen, Stuart Updegrave ISBN: 0-7645-4367-9 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 31 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.53 (32 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not much of a reference
Comment: The book starts with a strange 'Introduction to Programming' chapter, which is for people who don't know what a variable is (good thing _that's_ in a language reference book!) Meanwhile, there is no 'Introduction to VBScript' chapter. I found it very difficult to find simple information on syntax and keywords (just try to find anything on function return types or declaring arrays...) The main Appendix, which contains lots of valuable information, is organized randomly by arcane subjects (and there's no listing of the subjects) so it's difficult to find anything. It also seems to be lifted out of a VB book and contains things that aren't even supported in VBScript.
The range of topics covered is useful if you're trying to decide whether VBScript is right for your project . But if you're just trying to write Active Server Pages, I recommend skipping this book and getting 'Beginning ASP' by Wrox -- it uses VBScript exclusively and has a better introduction to the syntax and usage of the language.
Rating: 5
Summary: VBScript Programmer's Reference
Comment: I am not normally a fan of multi-author text books. Unless they are very carefully edited, you wind up getting beat up with words, hearing 3 or 4 different renditions of the same material.
But I found "VBScript Programmer's Reference to be a useful book. I appreciated the section on Remote Scripting, which I put to good use in an intranet (MSIE5) web development project.
Anyone getting started in web development will find a maze of rapidly emerging software technologies to sort through. I encountered two problems that I simply did not know how to address. So I e-mailed a few of the authors of the text, hoping to get a reply.
To my surprise and delight, each one responded to my request and got me moving forward! I know that WROX cannot promise this kind of followup from all authors for all of its texts, but the folks who wrote VBScript are good guys who want to help. For the book and the remarkable followup they deserve at least 5-stars.
Rating: 3
Summary: Decent overall.
Comment: Overall, VBScript: Programmer's Reference is pretty good and fairly useful.
High points:
- Wide range of relevant topics.
- Good examples.
- Extensive appendicies.
Low points:
- Already out of date.
- Worthless and frustrating index.
- Lots of undefined acronymns.
- Discontinuity of writing styles between the many authors.
I have been writing embedded software for a long time, but am relatively new to VBScript and Windows. I found this book to be useful for me, but I suspect that there are probably better books out there.
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Title: VBScript in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition by Paul Lomax, Matt Childs, Ron Petrusha ISBN: 0596004885 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Learning VBScript by Paul Lomax ISBN: 1565922476 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 by David Buser, John Kauffman, Juan T. Llibre, Brian Francis, Dave Sussman, Chris Ullman, Jon Duckett ISBN: 0764543636 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 11 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: VBScript Pocket Reference by Paul Lomax, Ron Petrusha, Matt Childs ISBN: 0596001266 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Microsoft WSH and VBScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Jerry Lee, Jr. Ford, Jerry Lee Ford Jr. ISBN: 159200072X Publisher: Premier Press Pub. Date: 21 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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