How did you learn ASP?

**Learning Newbie** · 06-13-2007, 01:20 PM

For me, I had a job with an intranet site with about ten pages written in Perl. We had a Unix box in a company full of Windows machine, the IT guy just loved that stuff. Not Linux, but Unix. Anyway, when he left, nobody knew how to work with cron jobs that moved text files around and built simple html tables of contents, some links, stuff like that. The company ran on MS Access and I was doing lots of VBA programming any way, not being able to respond to changes in the data was affecting my job, so I volunteered. We put a little ASP app on the Exchange server, and it was a bright sunny day.

Eventually ASP.NET came along and I got comfortable working with it.

What's your story?

**ADAM Web Design** · 06-13-2007, 01:40 PM

I had a client who had Access databases and wanted to build a site using them. So I did.

Yeah, long story, eh?

**DonnaZ** · 06-14-2007, 09:45 AM

The company I worked for in 1998 was doing SQL Server/FoxPro application work when our banking clients wanted to start transporting their applications to the web.

ASP was the only thing out there at the time that allowed us to work with SQL Server & FoxPro.

I still love ASP. There's a ton of sites using it still. Today, I use it to do quick prototypes of sites I'm developing before placing it in another server-side language.

DonnaZ

**Tropica** · 06-14-2007, 06:22 PM

i made a full site in php, requested the company got a linux server before i had started, and when the time came to upload it was windows, one LONG weekend later there was an asp site lol

**jakomo** · 06-14-2007, 10:51 PM

I did learn in my company, and I learn very fast because there was an urgence I remember !!!!

**rockdays** · 06-15-2007, 05:01 AM

From a book which would have given PC-Life computer magazine. Thanks for Hakki Ocal

I have been coding asp since 2000 and i have made many success stories. Last year i have been working Wsi, may be you know it

There a many things to tell but it`s enough now

**Malatya** · 06-16-2007, 12:46 PM

do not offer books etc.Do it yourself by işnternet.There are tons of tutorials, examples etc.Search and do it.Do not wait for help.Be your own teacher.

**Johnno** · 06-20-2007, 08:38 AM

GenericDB.com and trial & error. Took a while but I got there.

**c0ry** · 06-28-2007, 12:50 AM

I started learning Classic ASP in college. I took it to my first job and built a couple systems using classic ASP. I switched to .NET when one of the other web guys, who was a big time php developer, showed me some of the features of .NET. I was hooked!