In this ASP training course, students will learn to build full-featured, database-driven Web sites. This introductory course for new programmers lays out the basics of server-side Web programming with an introduction to classic programming structures and good programming practices. Students will apply these programming skills to the development of a fully functional data-driven website with ASP written in VBScript. Students will harness the power of ASP to remember users with cookies and sessions, collect and process information users enter into an online form, and provide rich integration with databases to track clients, orders, and products using ASP and the enhanced functionality of ASP components.

• Client-side vs. Server-side Web Technologies
• The Web's Client-Server Relationship
• Which Web Servers Support Active Server Pages?

• ASP Code in an HTML Context
• ASP Code is "Language Neutral"
• VBScript in ASP
• ASP Scriptlets
• VBScript Strings
• An Abbreviation for Response.Write
• Developing ASPs
• ASP Directives, Statements, Expressions and Comments
• VBScript Flexibility and Good Programming Practices

• The FORM Tag and its Attributes
• ASP Objects
• The Request and Response Objects
• Scalar Variables in ASP
• Customizing a Page for the Visitor

• Comparison Operators in VBScript
• Adding an Else Clause
• Implementing an IF...ELSE...END IF Conditional
• The Logical AND and OR

• Setting and Retrieving a Cookie
• Cookie Properties
• Expiring a Cookie

• The Session Object
• The Application Object
• Working with Components
• Instantiating Component Objects

• Writing to a Tab-Delimited Text File

• For...Next Loops
• Populating Select Lists
• Sarissa
• Drag and Drop
• script.aculo.us

• Database Commands with SQL
• The ADO Object Model
• Retrieving a Record from the Database with ASP
• The Connection Object's Execute Method