BOOK REVIEW

Book Title: ASP.NET and VB.NET Web Programming

Addison Wesley

Author: Matt J. Crouch

ISBN: 0201734400

 

Category

Rating

LEGEND:

5=Excellent

4=Good

3=Standard

2=Fair

1=Poor

 

Overall recommendation

4

Quality of organization

3

Easy to read and navigate

4

Sufficient quantity of examples

5

Examples are error free

4

Reuse for reference

4

Quality of index

4

 

Summary Review 

 I will recommend this book mostly for beginners with VB.NET and/or ASP.NET. The amazing in this book is the mixture of VB.NET chapters and ASP.NET chapters, which makes life difficult for readers that are looking only for ASP.NET tutorials or only for VB.NET tutorials. I think it will be nice if the book contains two separate parts: one for VB.NET and the other one for ASP.NET. Plus, a common (e.g. Appendix) one for ADO.NET.

Detailed Comments 

 The book provides a good introduction about .NET platform. It also mentions very helpful hints that reflect the author skills and his hands-on .NET technology. However, the book contains 741 pages and only 8 chapters, which makes almost all chapters too long to read. The book displays plenty of screenshots, but unfortunately they took almost one half page. The source codes are excellent but without comments and in some examples the source code covers more than three pages. The reader needs more efforts to keep in focus or to find what he/she is looking for. The author covers many good topics in both VB.NET as well as ASP.NET. The author has mentioned the pillars of Object Oriented Programming along with VB.NET as well as he explained Web Services along with ASP.NET.

 

Reviewer:

Abder Boukour

Date:

9/17/02