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Summary: Not as bad as others may have you think.
Review: Peter's terms in this book are nonstandard for a reason.His intent is to get a point across without simultaneously boxing the reader's perspective into one angle, one paradigm, one image about how OO coding works, how it's supposed to happen, who's supposed to do it, who's supposed to know about it and so on. There are certain types of programmer who will object to this approach. However that does not invalidate the approach, and it does not make the book bad.
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Summary: Give it a Chance if you can get it cheap.
Review: This book has some useful information but it is presented in a long winded manner. It should have had a CD with the full source code and working programs of the examples in the book. Instead there are only partial chunks of code given as examples. Fortunately I only paid a couple of bucks for it. It is definately not worth full retail.
Rating:
Summary: Give it a Chance if you can get it cheap.
Review: This book has some useful information but it is presented in a long winded manner. It should have had a CD with the full source code and working programs of the examples in the book. Instead there are only partial chunks of code given as examples. Fortunately I only paid a couple of bucks for it. It is definately not worth full retail.
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Summary: Open your mind!
Review: This book is great! For the first time, a book on Lingo
goes one step further. Usually this kind of books deals with
the basics -roll over, puppet sprites,...-, but this one
opens the door of the object-oriented programming. That's not
just about Lingo, that's about a new way of thinking!
Buy it ASAP.
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Summary: The best book I've read about Director
Review: This book is not an academic approach to Object Oriented. It teaches you how to use Director in a very different (and better) way. You stop viewing a Director movie as "frames in the Score Window" and start using it as an "object-maker". It opens up your mind for new possibilities. I'm not a programmer, but after reading this book I've started making good projects with Director.
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Summary: Super Great Ideas but unfortunately presented clumsily
Review: This Book is virtually a gem. The Ideas in this book have completely changed my way of thinking OOP wise.Also it opened my mind to totally new paths regarding the use of Lingo. However, I could have saved a lot of time reading and understanding that book ,if the author had paid more attention to the way he presented his Ideas to the readers. It took me more patience than intelligence to keep up with the authors trail of thoughts. He many times switched from an Idea to another without any prior warning then jump back to the original Idea the same way he left off. Also it took me hours to fill up the gaps the author had left in his illustrative projects including codes,sprites or castmembers that I had to figure out on my awn. So I ask the author kindly to eliminate these major sorts of distractions to make his readers more focused on the Ideas of the book ,rather than what went wrong or what is missing , if he is planning on writing any other books on lingo. But regardless of all the above, in the meantime, this book is one of a kind comparing to other books on lingo and I can confidently say that it's a must for every lingo enthusiast.
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Summary: Yeah! Just like my uncle says!
Review: This book stinks!! I hate "me-too" techno manuals without a lot of hype and no content.
Rating: 
Summary: Are you ripe for hype???????
Review: Well this book is useless for any practicing or aspiring lingo programmer, the obscure approach to coding OO lingo has absolutelty no realworld use value. The book offers %95 blabber on the virtues of OOP without one bit of useful code. The author may be a good cheerleader for something he heard on TV, but how he was allowed to publish this book is a complete mystery to me.(Well, thats not exactly true: the title was good, the timing was right, and the economy was booming) This book was written by a fan for fans. So if you need a motivational speaker to convince you that OOP is a good thing, buy this book, read it, recycle it and then buy Bruce Epstein excellent "Lingo in a Nutshell" and write some nice ojects in Director.
Rating:
Summary: Are you ripe for hype???????
Review: Well this book is useless for any practicing or aspiring lingo programmer, the obscure approach to coding OO lingo has absolutelty no realworld use value. The book offers %95 blabber on the virtues of OOP without one bit of useful code. The author may be a good cheerleader for something he heard on TV, but how he was allowed to publish this book is a complete mystery to me.(Well, thats not exactly true: the title was good, the timing was right, and the economy was booming) This book was written by a fan for fans. So if you need a motivational speaker to convince you that OOP is a good thing, buy this book, read it, recycle it and then buy Bruce Epstein excellent "Lingo in a Nutshell" and write some nice ojects in Director.
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