Needs an editor

On page 2 of the introduction, it says "You can copy examples illustrated in this book from our web site" - which is where? Because nowhere in this book can I find any kind of URL. It could be the publisher's at [...], but once you get there, this book isn't listed for either code downloads or for errata (and it should be on both web pages).

And I wouldn't need to find their web page at all if it weren't for the errors, starting with the first web application project in Chapter 3.

For example, you're told to name the property ID you assign to a button as CreateAccount. But when you write the server-side code a couple of pages later, the property in the instructions is now called CreateNewAccount. For someone totally new to this material, following it exactly - and in a book supposedly intended for those people - it's these kinds of details that can mess you up. Also, in the step-by-step instructions, you can't "set the Read Only Property to Read Only" as you're being told to do. The Read Only property is either "true" or "false."

(In chapter 2, you create the famous "Hello, world." By why does the author use aging HTML tags like "< b >" instead of XHTML or XML tags like "< strong >"?)

I'm only 3 chapters in and I'm already disappointed. What should have been an accessible book for beginners is a potential nightmare journey of not knowing when something went wrong because of something you did or because the book has led you astray.

Other Reviews

• For the non programmer or non technical reader
• Confusing, incomplete, inaccurate
• Needs an editor