I bought a copy of ASP Made Simple because I couldn't devote the time to ploughing through those giant, expensive tomes you usually see on this kind of subject. The authors have done a good job in making a complicated topic understandable. The book project code is clever in that it sets out to make a rudimentary working database-backed site rather than simply demonstrate coding principles. On the negative side there are one or two typos in the listings, but apart from that this is a good little book, handy for fellow autodidacts and students limited by time and budget.