Hi guys. I'm a designer/editor with some really limited scripting experience (a little PHP, mostly includes). I just interviewed for a webmaster position with a small company and they gave me some homework. They asked me to write some ASP (I copied the assignment below). I'm totally freaking because I don't even know where to start. I have two days to learn the basics and try to put something together. Can someone point me towards some good resources for a crash course in ASP?? (I already checked out w3schools.com.) I know it's gonna be tough, but I really really need this job. Thanks --- Using ASP classic, write a simple program that lists users in a tabular format from an Access MDB or XML file located in the same folder as the application. The web page should present the list of users in groups of 10 and should allow the user to navigate to the next, previous, first and last 10 records. Your sample data should contain more than 22 users and should contain the following fields: · UserID · FirstName · LastName · Email · Phone Give the user the ability to add and update the user records. Provide client-side validation for the Last Name and email fields. Both are required and should be well formatted. Please note, any incorporation of XML, XSLT and/or CSS to render navigation will be viewed positively.
I would struggle to produce that in two days. With bound controls in .net yes, with asp it would be hard. try 4guysfromrolla.com and look at the older stuff on their site. Best of luck.
Thanks for the replies. First thing I did was Google for ASP tutorials. I guess I was looking for a consensus starting point. And I wanted to get an idea of how difficult the "assignment" is. Sounds like I am out of luck, as far as learning this in so short a time span. I guess I'll have to pick up a few books and get to work. Thanks for your help.
Sorry, but it really is hard to learn all that in two days, and create the site on top of that. I think w3schools is one of the best places to learn, and you already had looked into that. A few books is a good move, but it'll take you more than a couple of days. Maybe they want to see how much you can get done in a couple of days. There may be freely available scripts, don't be afraid to use them, you'll use them everyday anyway.
Kindly be patient.Plan your time accordingly.Why dont you try sseking knowledge from downloading free ebooks on the topic of your own interest.Try using google search.
Its easy as a cake If you want to learn the code forget it cause even if you do you won't be able to get over with the messy naunace errors in time (They are a real headache). I have expreince but if you just want solution then ask a demo copy of macromedia dreamweaver from anywhere or buy it or download it and you can do it in at least 1 hour If you have some experience then you can do it in 10min. provided you already have a database. If you need any more help PM me.
Hey, Providing you have a database with sample data in it. you can use dreamweaver to complete that task in one day if you have a guide with you. http://www.dmxzone.com is a good site to start off with.
So how did this work out? Did you manage to pull it off and get the job? Did you warn them up-front that you really didn't know ASP?