“ASP Tutorial” is a text-based tutorial available from w3school’s web site (www.w3schools.com) that covers materials about writing scripts using ASP. This ASP tutorial contains more than 100 examples. It shows both the ASP source code and the HTML output of the code.
This ASP web site is a commercial site sponsored by W3 Schools and has a significant amount of solid information about the basics of ASP - Active Server Page.
Overall the tutorial serves as an excellent tool for anyone who wants to become an ASP programmer.
Type of Material:
The site contains a mixture of definitions, instructions, sample code, and other links that provide an excellent foundation to ASP.
Drill and Practice.
Recommended Uses:
This site could provide a supplement to a typical Web development textbook for Web designer classes. This tutorial can be used as a supplemental resource for face-2-face or online students.
Technical Requirements:
Web Browser, Internet Information Server
Identify Major Learning Goals:
At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:
* Plan, code, debug, and execute simple ASP programs
* Learn to use Internet Information Server
* Create procedures and basic ASP applications
* Add server-side scripts to web sites
* Dynamically edit, change or add any content of a web page
* Respond to data submitted from HTML forms
* Access any data or databases and return the results to a browser
* Customize a web page to make it more useful for individual users
Target Student Population:
High School, undergraduate or Higher Education Web Programming Courses
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Some background of HTML / XHTML and a scripting language like JavaScript or VBScript is needed.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The tutorial includes a well-written narrative, code examples, reference materials, and quizzes, which are critical when explaining scripting concepts.
Concerns:
The name of the actual author(s) is missing. In the academic world, it may stop some educators from introducing this tutorial to their students. The advertisement by W3Schools at the top, side and bottom of the tutorial are distracting and can be annoying, and will have a negative impact on the credibility of the content.
ASP.NET 2.0 is quiet different that the version of ASP that this tutorial is written in.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Multiple links to other sites provide many other learning opportunities as well. The site could make an excellent supplement and is easy to understand.
The tutorial is well written. The use of ASP source code and the HTML output of the code is extremely helpful while learn to write scripts in ASP.
Concerns:
The author has done an excellent job. My only recommendation is to add more practice exercises and graphics to illustrate hard-to-understand programming concepts.
Somewhat outdated since ASP 2.0 is the new standard.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The navigation is straight forward. The code examples are nicely formatted and the “Try It Yourself” examples allow learners a hands-on experience.
Very Easy to follow. Navigation links are provided on the left side of the screen providing quick access to any topic.
Concerns:
Some of the pages in the module come up with a lot of text and require much scrolling. There is too much of advertising material all around the actual content.
Other Issues and Comments:
This is an excellent resource for a beginner to learn about ASP.
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