This work covers teaching ASP and script-based programming from the ground up. It addresses all the fundamental questions including - what exactly ASP is, how to get up and running with ASP, how it actually works, and how ASP can be used to produce dynamic, interactive web applications. As well as providing a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of ASP, this book also covers all of the new developments that come with Windows 2000 as well as showing you how ASP integrates with the latest versions of technologies such ADO, COM+ and XML.