reading (Programming ASP.NET)
Oct. 23rd, 2010 01:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorIt has been a long time since I finished a book. That is in part because I have been busy doing other things. It's also in part because I had started a book, then stopped in the middle to read another, then started a third to relieve myself of the second. Well, now I've finally finished two of them! This is about the second book, which has eaten my reading time for the last month or so.
I picked up Jesse Liberty's "Programming ASP.NET" to keep me focused on ASP. I had been intending to add some current technology to my abilities and I needed the brain challenge. At about the same time I decided these things, the ability to use ASP.NET on a project at work came along, so it dovetailed fairly well.
I don't think many people are going to read this book cover to cover. The few who do, will probably read it while in front of their computers, trying the examples. I did read it cover to cover, over 800 pages in all. I wasn't in front of the computer. So I didn't get to try out the examples, but I did have to think about the code bits and the implications a bit more, I think.
As a technical book, it is very well written. It provides a fair amount of detail on a huge topic. It doesn't get down into the kind of details that you'll need once you dig into the trenches, but provides you enough to have an idea of where to start your trenches and how the different trenches you might dig could connect. I think it's a good level of detail and any more would have made the book unpublishable and unreadable.
The book did suffer from lack of proofreading. The proofreaders got tired after somewhere around page 400 and the incidents of errors went up quite a bit. Most of these are in the text parts of the book, I can't remember if I found errors in the code (outside of one glaring one in a code comment). I read the 3rd edition of the book, but there was no doubt lots of new material in it because of technology changes.
23. Jesse Liberty "Programming ASP.NET"
I picked up Jesse Liberty's "Programming ASP.NET" to keep me focused on ASP. I had been intending to add some current technology to my abilities and I needed the brain challenge. At about the same time I decided these things, the ability to use ASP.NET on a project at work came along, so it dovetailed fairly well.
I don't think many people are going to read this book cover to cover. The few who do, will probably read it while in front of their computers, trying the examples. I did read it cover to cover, over 800 pages in all. I wasn't in front of the computer. So I didn't get to try out the examples, but I did have to think about the code bits and the implications a bit more, I think.
As a technical book, it is very well written. It provides a fair amount of detail on a huge topic. It doesn't get down into the kind of details that you'll need once you dig into the trenches, but provides you enough to have an idea of where to start your trenches and how the different trenches you might dig could connect. I think it's a good level of detail and any more would have made the book unpublishable and unreadable.
The book did suffer from lack of proofreading. The proofreaders got tired after somewhere around page 400 and the incidents of errors went up quite a bit. Most of these are in the text parts of the book, I can't remember if I found errors in the code (outside of one glaring one in a code comment). I read the 3rd edition of the book, but there was no doubt lots of new material in it because of technology changes.
23. Jesse Liberty "Programming ASP.NET"
