I am a student web-developer and have acquired the following skills: HTML, 
CSS, DHTML, Javascript, Perl-CGI.  Recently, I started teaching myself ASP 
3.0.  My ultimate goal is to learn ASP.net using C#.  I haven't really 
started with .net yet, although I've been reading on some introduction 
about it.  My question is, is there an advantage if I continue my study of 
ASP 3.0 before focusing on ASP.net? Or, am I just wasting my time with ASP 
3.0?

If you just want to learn asp.net then no probabily not as it is quite
different from asp. Asp is however used in some companies instead of
asp.net so there is a lot of conversions going on at the moment.
Personnaly if I were in your possition I'd go straight for asp.net and
leave asp until later. You should be able to pick up asp quite easily
after asp.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Almirante [mailto:almirantemark@y...] 
Sent: 18 February 2003 10:20
To: aspx_beginners
Subject: [aspx_beginners] Is there an advantage in learning ASP 3.0
before pusuing ASP.net?


I am a student web-developer and have acquired the following skills:
HTML, 
CSS, DHTML, Javascript, Perl-CGI.  Recently, I started teaching myself
ASP 
3.0.  My ultimate goal is to learn ASP.net using C#.  I haven't really 
started with .net yet, although I've been reading on some introduction 
about it.  My question is, is there an advantage if I continue my study
of 
ASP 3.0 before focusing on ASP.net? Or, am I just wasting my time with
ASP 
3.0?

I've been learning both, and I find ASP easier to learn than ASP.NET.
ASP is very similar to PHP.  ASP.NET is more like Java, because you use
programming languages like C# and VB.NET, which derive from languages
like Visual Basic and C++.  I would guess that there are more web sites
using ASP than ASP.NET right now, which is why I spend more time with
ASP and PHP than ASP.NET.  There is quite a lot of cost involved in
switching an ASP web site to ASP.NET, so it will not happen over night.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Almirante [mailto:almirantemark@y...]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:20 AM
> To: aspx_beginners
> Subject: [aspx_beginners] Is there an advantage in learning ASP 3.0
before
> pusuing ASP.net?
> 
> I am a student web-developer and have acquired the following skills:
HTML,
> CSS, DHTML, Javascript, Perl-CGI.  Recently, I started teaching myself
ASP
> 3.0.  My ultimate goal is to learn ASP.net using C#.  I haven't really
> started with .net yet, although I've been reading on some introduction
> about it.  My question is, is there an advantage if I continue my
study of
> ASP 3.0 before focusing on ASP.net? Or, am I just wasting my time with
ASP
> 3.0?
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I would go with what the other dude said, asp.net is more important, you
can learn asp 3 later as an after thought.


-----Original Message-----
From: Carl E. Olsen [mailto:carl-olsen@m...] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:42 AM
To: aspx_beginners
Subject: [aspx_beginners] RE: Is there an advantage in learning ASP 3.0
before pusuing ASP.net?


I've been learning both, and I find ASP easier to learn than ASP.NET.
ASP is very similar to PHP.  ASP.NET is more like Java, because you use
programming languages like C# and VB.NET, which derive from languages
like Visual Basic and C++.  I would guess that there are more web sites
using ASP than ASP.NET right now, which is why I spend more time with
ASP and PHP than ASP.NET.  There is quite a lot of cost involved in
switching an ASP web site to ASP.NET, so it will not happen over night.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Almirante [mailto:almirantemark@y...]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:20 AM
> To: aspx_beginners
> Subject: [aspx_beginners] Is there an advantage in learning ASP 3.0
before
> pusuing ASP.net?
> 
> I am a student web-developer and have acquired the following skills:
HTML,
> CSS, DHTML, Javascript, Perl-CGI.  Recently, I started teaching myself
ASP
> 3.0.  My ultimate goal is to learn ASP.net using C#.  I haven't really

> started with .net yet, although I've been reading on some introduction

> about it.  My question is, is there an advantage if I continue my
study of
> ASP 3.0 before focusing on ASP.net? Or, am I just wasting my time with
ASP
> 3.0?
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I would start learning ASP.net and forget about ASP3.

Actually that's exactly what I did. I had written html, javascript, css, 
dhtml, xslt and xml prior to the job I have now. I was thrown into the 
deep end with the .NET architecture. 

Not having learned ASP prior to this role was not a disadvantage. I read a 
few books about the .net architecture, then a few books specifically about 
ASP.net. I spend a fair bit of time at google and msdn searching for best 
ways to solve particular problems. You'll find that with the .net 
architecture there are masses of resources onlnie to help you out.

Dive in. Have fun. Forget ASP3, You'll pick up a lot of it when you read 
ASP.net books as they compare the features of ASP3 with ASP.net.

Cheers,
Jason Pluis
Canberra, Australia


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