Hi guys, this is my first post... I'm currently taking up Software Engineering, I'm already good in HTML and CSS, were taking up Javascript for this month(module) and will be going to take ASP by next module. Every sem, we will be proposing systems, application, or websites related to the languages that we have discussed. Last sem we have done a static website (HTML & CSS).

For this sem we're going to make a system using ASP and MS Access for our database. What kind of system can you suggest for a n00b like me? I'm a fast learner type of guy, after I finished self studying JS, I'll proceed to studying ASP. The phase of the lesson on our school is a bit slow thats why I need to study in advance for me to become much better...
ASP is like PHP right? They say they just differ in the syntax that is being used. Is it possible that I will get a nice OS PHP system in hotscript.com and convert it into ASP?

Thats all for now guys, I'm looking forward for your help... Thanks...

Originally Posted by fr0z3n

ASP is like PHP right? They say they just differ in the syntax that is being used. Is it possible that I will get a nice OS PHP system in hotscript.com and convert it into ASP?

Yes. Yes. No.

ASP is a lot like PHP. Conceptually they're very similar. Syntactically they're quite different, like you said. The frameworks that each of them run on are very different, too. ASP runs on IIS, Microsoft's web server (Internet Information Services). PHP runs on Apache, the open source web server. Both have session variables, but ASP has application variables, meaning you can share data among all people logged into your system. There are a lot of ways they're dissimilar enough (that's one example) that you can't just translate ASP to PHP to ASP code.

I would highly recommend ASP.NET if you're going to pick one up. ASP is sort of like Windows 3.1.