This document provides an introduction and overview of using ASP (Active Server Pages) for web programming. It discusses what ASP is, how ASP files work by containing HTML tags, text, and server-side scripts. It also covers installing and configuring IIS (Internet Information Services) to run ASP pages on Windows, and basic ASP syntax using tags like <% %> to delimit server-side script blocks. The document also demonstrates how to access user input from forms, connect to and query databases using ADO (ActiveX Data Objects), and includes code samples for common ASP programming tasks.