Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Once a programmer, always a programmer.

Ok. Coding ASP is actually scripting. Nevertheless, I have spent the last 5 years doing functional work as a program and project management consultant. In December, I had some downtime and decided to buy this book on a lark and put it down 21 days later. After 5 more weeks I wrote approximately 8000 lines of ASP code and developed two different web-based applications... both of which are in use by rather large compaies. In short, I have been very pleased to learn what the book taught in a very straightforward manner and would recommend it as a starting point for anyone interested in learning ASP.