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Summary: Simply the best resource going.
Review: "Lingo in a Nutshell" and its companion book "Director in a Nutshell" are an incredible source and wealth of valuable information. If you have learned some of the fundamentals of Director and wish to expand your horizons, these books are a must have. I always recommend these books as must read to my students here at the Vancouver Film School - New Media Campus. The fact that it covers Lingo only to Director 6.5 should be of no hindrance. It all still applies and is 100% relevant to Director 7. If you want to get the best out of your Lingo, BUY THIS BOOK. Excellent job Bruce and Thanks!
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Summary: Simply the best resource going.
Review: "Lingo in a Nutshell" and its companion book "Director in a Nutshell" are an incredible source and wealth of valuable information. If you have learned some of the fundamentals of Director and wish to expand your horizons, these books are a must have. I always recommend these books as must read to my students here at the Vancouver Film School - New Media Campus. The fact that it covers Lingo only to Director 6.5 should be of no hindrance. It all still applies and is 100% relevant to Director 7. If you want to get the best out of your Lingo, BUY THIS BOOK. Excellent job Bruce and Thanks!
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Summary: simply the best book on lingo out there
Review: - With clean, accurate, and highly skillfull explanations, the book clearly stands out from the majority of lingo books. Packed with usefull examples, fast reference tables and hidden features, this book, accompanied by its sister publication "Director in a nutshell", is the ultimate book-ware available. Not to mention his cute style, as in "...dont be intimidated by a bug. They can smell fear."
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Summary: A Must
Review: ...for any Director Programmer. I just wish they'd update the dang thing.
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Summary: A Must
Review: ...for any Director Programmer. I just wish they'd update the dang thing.
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Summary: the book of books
Review: As a C++ programmer, I thought "Director? Lingo? UUUHHHH! just another primitive script language." After working with Director for 2 years Bruce's book showed me that Lingo is not just another primitive dumb script language. This book ( i own about ten books about Director and Lingo + the oringinal documentation) showed me hidden features of the language, I never thought that they even existed.Full score, Bruce. By the way: If you are an absolute beginner, this should not be the first book you ever read about director.
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Summary: Lingo in a Nutshell - OUTDATED
Review: Beware if you're buying this book, it covers lingo up to version 6, and director's most recent version is 8.5.
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Summary: Advanced Utopia
Review: Finally, a Lingo book comes out that doesn't try to teach beginners basic programming, but actually gives advanced programmers what they need *information*. I have two books (now) next to my computer at all times- LIAN, and Darrel Plant's "the Lingo Programmer's reference"... and I'm using LIAN more and more everyday.
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Summary: Do or Not Do... If you want to Do, get this book.
Review: I bought both halves of Bruce Epstein's brain & have to say that they are so much better than the Director documentation that I may never crack the Macromedia books again. As someone with a good deal of scripting experience (JavaScript/VB/VBA), I was able to use Bruce's books to get up to speed on Lingo's peculiarities very quickly to get our first Director project up and running in less than a week.That said, if you haven't got much programming/scripting experience, you might want to try Macromedia's own third-party training . . . and then buy both halves of Bruce's brain. Way to go, Bruce (and O'Reilly - whose animal books litter my offices at work and home.
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Summary: Lingo in a Nutshell - OUTDATED
Review: I can't emphasize enough how I would encourage readers NOT to purchase this book. Not only is it out of date (to no fault of its author), but it is incredibly disorganized (directly the fault of its author). This, however, is not unusual for O'Reilly books which are notorious for a general lack of order and the inclusion of irrelevant material. Should you ignore my advice, I'm certain you'll find yourself flipping back and forth as you read each chapter in succession, as nothing is covered ("Refer to Chapter X for details on X" is something you run into practically on every page) in cohesive chunks. And you'll also get other useful tips like "Experiment until you have a firm grasp of when the different handlers in different scripts are being called or until you are totally confused. Then start with new movie, and try it all again." That little gem applies equally as well to reading the book as it does to handling Lingo's archaic structure...
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