How to start Learning to be a web programmer (asp)?

Question

How do I go about to learn to program web pages? Could any programmer pls shed a light as to the correct steps to learn inorder for me to be a programmer.

I have downloaded this
- visual web developer 2005 express

Answer 1

If you are good at self teaching, it's as simple as picking up a book. There are many good resources - both books and web sites for learning programming. You can find books that will show you how to start with a very basic script such as returning "Hello Joe" on up to very complex scripts/programs such as an on-line storefront with credit card processing, news letter, etc.

If you don't have any kind of programming background you want to get familiar with key concepts such as loops, conditional statements, arrays, etc. Virtually every one of these concepts will apply to any programming - whether it's ASP, PHP, Java, Java Script, C++, assembly language, etc.

You want to get a good text editor - preferably something which is designed for coding. This will make coding easier because it will show you line numbers and can be configured to show related chunks of code in colors which will make it easier for debugging.

You will notice that I talked about using books more than once. While there are many good web sites that make wonderful resources, I have found it's easier to have a book I can look at than it is to toggle back and forth between windows. I would recommend starting with a basic book such as Visual QuickPro and then explore other resources once you start to build a comfort level.

You'll also want to invest time in learning at least the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScripts. While it's great to rely on the WYSIWYG editors to do this stuff automatically, you often need to know how to tweak this code to get things just right.

Answer 2

Through either online or books are fine, ASP.net is entirely different from ASP, make sure which one of those you after first.

I wouldn't have bothered with Visual Studio at all, a simple text editor is suffice (Textpad is good, but there are many better-yet open-source alternatives ported to Windows) and suffice for both ASP.net and ASP.

Answer 3

yes, start with http://www.w3schools.com/asp/default.asp

At W3Schools you will find complete ASP references about built-in objects and components, and their properties and methods.

If you want to learn ASP.NET, go to http://www.asp.net/

Answer 4

Hi there
Try this tutorials
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/default.asp

Answer 5

Check your local college for independent classes.

Answer 6

buy video training materials

Answer 7

try this site: www.webreference.com