ASP Newbie - ASP, VB, .NET, and a lot of confusion!

Just some general questions...

[JAB Creations]

I'm currently in a class where they gave the teacher no preparations nor does he know the material (but he is very cool so yeah). Anyway I've been using PHP for a while now (I have the hang of very basic programming with it and some JavaScript). I have some basic questions though nothing very specific.

None of the classes here are called what they are and this is basically ASP class. The only thing though is that we started learning VBscript which is not ASP...but it renders serverside and what not so I'm really lost on what ASP is... if it has its own code? How it incorporates other languages? Etc...

Also what would be some good resources for someone with a learning style who is not naturally gifted at programming?

John

[Dijkgraaf]

ASP (Active Server Pages) in .NET can be written in VBSCript, C++, CSharp & JScript.
ASP itself is not a language but rather a framework to run a website under.

[TheNige]

Classic ASP, which is sounds like you are learning is as mentioned a platform for running ASP web pages that are writting in VBScript or JavaScript.

ASP.Net is the newest version and you can write the programs in VB.Net, C#, J# and other languages that have .Net compilers.

Classic ASP is more similar to PHP programming as far as I know.

[Iguana]

Traditionally. classic ASP was always written in werver side VBScript (only very occasionally did you need to use server-side Javascript). VBscript is also used for programming Microsoft Office products so it is worth knowing. After 8 years of ASP programming, I found using PHP very easy and similar.

It is strange that you are being taught old ASP - when ASP.NET/C#, VB.NET is much better for demonstrating real programming (OO stuff). The only classic ASP jobs these days are maintenance jobs (I've just moved to Java/Struts programming myself). Maybe it is meant for students with less experience than you - just to get them used to the concepts of a web application.

[JAB Creations]

Actually I've been learning VB script and I've seen a little JavaScript in ASP pages when they opened up Dreamweaver but it didn't look like JavaScript (which is understandable because DW's JS code is bloated anyway).

Looks like VB script is the way to go with ASP from my perspective.

Thanks for the replies!

John