I broke into the programming biz using a program called "Tango", which is tag-based like CF and was super fast to learn... one day, the company who made it (Pervasive) suddenly decided to pull the plug on support... so in August of 2000 the company i used to work for switched to ASP, in which the meeting I actually asked "what ASP meant" since i knew absolutely nothing about it.....
but things worked out
- Got a few personal clients going in ASP
- Run a 26,000+ member web site based on the Acura Integra
- By day, do ASP/Javascript/SQL/XSL
- When time has allowed i've been re-writing my Integra site in VB.NET
IF you are just now getting into ASP, i'd suggest see if you can instead get into ASP.NET, its soooooooooo much more powerful, something are a little getting used to, but all in all, its superior than anything out there
Oh, and after almost 3 years of ASP, copy and paste still good, lol.....
and one more page to add to Paul's links above:
I swear by: http://www.w3schools.com, excellent site