Director® 7 and Lingo¿ Bible

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Light in the dark [Posted on 2000-06-15]
This book is something amazing, why I am telling you that, the reason is that this book helps me to learn DIRECTOR 7 for only 4 days.A Great and easy guide tour will help you to know everything about this program.You have lots of exercises and step by step system of leaning, from the start until the end, where the final product is waiting for you...multimedia show. Good luck !

I agree with the reader from Syracuse, NY [Posted on 2000-08-02]
This book talks about everything (almost), but does't really teach a lot. The writing is about boring outdated media. I think writers should learn how to make books interesting to read and teach on cool subjects - and not just to make money... all in all, I was disapointed by this one, I hope it works for you ;)

Good start [Posted on 2000-12-28]
As all other books start off, you'll start with a project and more elements are slowly added in as you go thru each chapter. Of course there's the usual side notes, explaining certain tips, concepts and more advanced features. It starts off with the basic controls, but doesn't get carried off by explaining every single one, which can be good or bad in a way.

The book goes with idea that if you know some of the controls, you can figure out the rest. After dealing with various multimedia features of Director, it finally reaches the Lingo language, but rather than explain the basic semantics, its starts quickly with functions and procedures which hopefully can be figured out later.

If being proficient in Director is what you aim to be, then this book is definitely a good buy. But if you're more into average projects with decent animations, and yet can't be bothered reading too much or knowing too much too early, then you'll be better off with the Visual Quickstart book. I found that after covering more than half the book and finally reaching the Lingo chapters, I stopped coz I felt I didn't need to know all that unless I was doing hardcore projects. Besides, its also cheaper than other books which are just as THICK.

A conscious effort to be unreadable [Posted on 2001-01-01]
How can a book on Director be more of a chore to understand than Director itself? In my Unversity program the class was instructed to buy this book as a required text. Not a single person in the class liked this book, or even got close to understanding its confusing and cryptic method for categorizing information. It became a running joke that if anyone attempted to look up a feature of Director 7 by name not only would it not be listed in the index, but thorough expeditions into the pages would invariably be fruitless. The only thing keeping the daily desire to hurl this text out the window or at the professor was the guilt for spending 50 bucks on it. Needless to say, we were spoiled with the lucidity and readability of Deke McClellend's Photoshop Bible and were led astray here. Avoid this book! The manual that came with the program for FREE was far superior.

A Work of Art [Posted on 2001-03-03]
I started with Director 7 Demystified and found that after reading that book I didn't know what I was doing. So I picked this one up, and it covers many many details that the Demystified book does not. The example files that you work with are commercial quality (those Swifty examples in Demystified were some of the ugliest files I've ever seen). In summary, I want to congratulate the authors on putting this outstanding book together; the amount of effort the authors put into this book is obvious from the first chapter on. Thanks for making our lives a little easier.

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