Director 7 and Lingo Authorized (2nd Edition)

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Summary: New to Director 7 ?
Review: BUY this book. - Explanations are a little rough - and sometimes seem a little "cut-off". Probably a problem with me because I have no prior multimedia editing experience. General knowledge of multimedia programs similiar to this program is helpful. GOOD, easy to follow tutorials are explained. A problem I sometimes had was when I did NOT get the result that The TUTORIAL SAID i WAS SUPPOSED TO GET. Me, being such a premie, I didn't know how to trouble-shoot it. This book is still one of the best out of the 4 DIRECTOR 7 books I purchased. DO NOT BUY THE DIRECTOR 7 QUICK START guide BY PEACH-PIT IF YOU ARE NEW to director 7 ! I SPENT TOO MUCH TIME reading entire book and - LEARNED NOTHING THAT THIS BOOK DIDN'T TEACH ME IN THE FIRST few CHAPTERS!

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Summary: Director 7 and Lingo Authorised (2nd edition) (Paperback)
Review: I bought this book for a class that I was taking in Director. This was the textbook that we used in the class, and after using it, I was not satisfied.

This book consists of tutorials that you perform, which increase in difficulty as you progress. However, instead of teaching you Director and Lingo, and how to use them, this book just has you do mindless tutorials. Sure, it tries to explain a few things along the way, but for the most part, you just follow directions, and do the tutorials.

I learned a whole lot more about how to use Director and Lingo from Director 7 Demystified. It explained things in clear terms, and taught you how to USE the program, instead of just telling you what to do next for the tutorial. Demystified is also a vast reference for Director and Lingo, whereas once you go through the tutorials in this book, you will probably never come back to it.

If you are trying to learn Director, I would definitely go with Director 7 Demystified.

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Summary: Mindless Tutorials
Review: I bought this book for a class that I was taking in Director. This was the textbook that we used in the class, and after using it, I was not satisfied.

This book consists of tutorials that you perform, which increase in difficulty as you progress. However, instead of teaching you Director and Lingo, and how to use them, this book just has you do mindless tutorials. Sure, it tries to explain a few things along the way, but for the most part, you just follow directions, and do the tutorials.

I learned a whole lot more about how to use Director and Lingo from Director 7 Demystified. It explained things in clear terms, and taught you how to USE the program, instead of just telling you what to do next for the tutorial. Demystified is also a vast reference for Director and Lingo, whereas once you go through the tutorials in this book, you will probably never come back to it.

If you are trying to learn Director, I would definitely go with Director 7 Demystified.

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Summary: A good step by step tutorial for beginners
Review: I bought this book with no background in Director. I only know Flash. The approach of this book is a step by step tutorial. I find it useful as a newbie. However after I finished all the exercise, I still have lots of unanswer questions. For example, how to use the Shockwave Multiusers server, and how to make more complex design with lingo, etc. I then read the official manuals, documentation and Director 7 Demystified. They do answer some of my questions. I find the latter book can give me a more solid foundation of Director than this one.

I think Director 7 and Lingo Authorized is good for beginners who know nothing about this application. The step by step tutorials does help me to feel and to remember all the basic functions. This is an okay book. However for those who want to go deeper into it as well as lingo, you ought to read Director 7 Demystified too since it has a bigger section on lingo script. Macromedia is famous for its support and learning site. The official documentation is also a very good source to learn, esp. their manual on the shockwave multiusers server. I cannot find much information on this server in most Director books.

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Summary: Director For Dummies
Review: If you're developing a Dummy library then this book is a must have. D7 & Lingo Authorized isn't a bad bood but it's hard to figure who the target audience is...If you're a client working w/ multimedia and want a surface knowledge of this programme, then it makes sense. But if you really want to learn D7, you might as well start w/ the infinitely superior D7 Demystified. Oddly enough, though Phil Gross worked on both books, they are polar opposites. D7D is not only informative and definitive, it's also an engaging read. D7 Authorized is not very engaging, incredibly simplistic and not exactly error-free. The writing itself is so void of personality and pedantic, one will find themselves paging ahead to relieve the tedium. Even if you know absolutely nothing about D7, Demystified is a better start.

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Summary: BEGINNERS BUY THIS BOOK!!!
Review: It's one thing to buy authorized books by the company who creates the program but it's another thing when they go through the basics step-by-step in learning the program. As you have read from the other reviewers...Hands down! This is the Director 7 book to buy. I was very (using a Cali. term) STOKED after using this book. It's one of those learn-how books that doesn't make you say "Yawn...I'll start the next chapter next week!". Don't be surprised if you keep going from one chapter to the next and the next and feeling good that you bought that book.

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Summary: Well worth a look
Review: macromedia's Authorized series of books are fine if you must learn by being hand-held through a series of steps throughout. Unfortunately, you miss out on the context of what you're doing if you just follow steps. A much better book, especially for the beginner, is Roberts/Gross's Director X Demystified. That book assumes that you want to learn the whys and not just the by-the-numbers hows of multimedia development. Demystified also covers Lingo in much more depth.

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Summary: Director 7 and Lingo Authorised (2nd edition) (Paperback)
Review: Pretty good stuff for a program that is not all that intuitive...

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Summary: Great book!
Review: Wonderful tutorials, makes learning Director fun and easy