ASP.Net has made the building of real world Web applications dramatically easier, by allowing great web pages to be built with far less code than the classic ASP program. David Mercer's: Programming The Web Using ASP.NET has been tailored for instructors at either a 2 year or 4 year institutions, who are teaching a full term course on ASP.NET. This textbook has been written by an expert in the field with the sole purpose of being used as a textbook not a trade book. The depth of coverage in this textbook provides tomorrow's web programmers the background they need to be marketable as web developers.