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Title: INSIDE Macromedia Director 8 and Lingo by Scott J. Wilson, Richard Salvatierra ISBN: 0-7668-2008-4 Publisher: OnWord Press Pub. Date: 21 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: a great disappointment
Comment: I set this as the core tutorial text for an introductory unit in Director. The great majority of the students found it less than helpful. It led to deep confusion and frustration. It needs a thorough edit, not only for typographic errors, but for structural ones. Important basic information is left to the last 3 chapters. Many of the tutorials are just a show and tell, with limited educational outcomes.
Rating: 3
Summary: Full of typos and errors
Comment: I had to go through this book with a pencil, correcting all the spelling mistakes, instruction errors, and gross inconsistencies between the book and the CD. Other than that, it's a great help in learning Director from scratch. I might have finished the book sooner if I didn't have to sit back and scratch my head in confusion every other paragraph.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very good, lingo transcript needs extra attention
Comment: This book has been extremely helpful and is well laid out. The content is very relevant. It does need some extra attention to the accuracy of the lingo. There have been a lot of places where I have had to change the lingo in the book with a pen because it was incorrect. This has to be expected to some extent but it was pretty annoying to repeatedly not understand why your code didn't work, only to find that when you compared the lingo in the book with the completed versions on the CD, they didn't match. Even the names of many of the cast members and script headings were different. This would be more acceptable if there was a website you could go to for ammendments. Maybe a little extra combing over the code before release would be worth it. I guess sometimes it actually felt pretty good when I realised that I was capable of finding lingo errors in the book, but it may have skimmed a couple of days off the learning process if they weren't there in the first place.
Apart from that though, the book is an excellent tutorial based introduction to Director and lingo. BTW, 'Lingo In A Nutshell' is possibly the best reference book I have ever read, even though it only goes up to Director 6.5, it contains the absolute core code that is still very relevant.
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Hands-On Training by Rosanna Yeung ISBN: 0321202988 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 16 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Hands-On Training by Garo Green ISBN: 032120297X Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 22 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004 by Tom Green, Jordan L. Chilcott, Chris S. Flick ISBN: 0735713766 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 20 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Macromedia Director MX by Gary Rosenzweig ISBN: 0789729032 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 13 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Apple Pro Training Series: DVD Studio Pro 2 by Adrian Ramseier ISBN: 0321186524 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 19 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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