Q: I am a college senior French major, but works for the IT department, which gives a unique niche. Anyway the French department wants me to a web-based placement exam for French department write to the current replacement is short exam.
The questions should I learn PHP or ASP? Is there a way to get PHP to authenticate to a Win2k server? or ASP is my only option? I have no real programming experience. Also where should I look to learn PHP and ASP?
Thanks for your help.
Best Answer: I'm at you point also. For my opinion i'd advice php is good server side programming language for any project you want to do. To learn it i would recommend tutorials and ebooks and mostly after any subject finished try to give yourself an assignment and don't stop till you finish it.
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Re:Originally posted by: jooksing
is there any big advantage to going to ASP.net over regular ASP?
Far too many to note in a single thread (or book).
If you have a choice then there is no choice.
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Re:is there any big advantage to going to ASP.net over regular ASP?
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
No, they are "Active Server Pages"… You still need to know how to fill them, and then you gotta program…
*cough* nitpick *cough* 
Yeah, but you can write ASP in several different languages, not just VBscript.
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Re:No, they are "Active Server Pages"… You still need to know how to fill them, and then you gotta program…
*cough* nitpick *cough*
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Re:ASP is not a language.
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Re:What's the webserver? If it is IIS on Win2k (and I assume it is), go ASP. It's much less of a hassle.
Otherwise, PHP runs well under Windows.
For learning ASP, I would strongly suggest you go over to the CS department, and ask them for help. Having someone there to help you out later will be good, but for now they should be able to recommend a book or two – they should either have something in the dept., or send you to the library.
Basically, ASP is a lot like Visual Basic, as far as I remember.
Finally, look at code snippets from other people, and copy/paste what you can. Start for example here (http://www.asp101.com/) or http://www.aspin.com/
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