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Title: Director® 7 and Lingo¿ Bible by Jonathan Bacon, Robert Martin, John R. Nyquist ISBN: 0-7645-3348-7 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beats Director 7 Demystified
Comment: I have both this book and Director 7 Demystified. They both have their strengths and weaknesses but if I had to choose one out of the two, I would definitely go with the Director 7 and Lingo Bible. It has more real-world examples and techniques than Demystified and is much easier to read. In fact, it was my initial frustration with the Demystified book that lead me to search for a better one.
I just finished my first real Lingo project about a week ago. The project required an undetermined number of sprites to be created and used and thus I needed to use objects to create and control sprites. Although Demystified goes into Object Oriented Programming, it stops short of explaining how to apply it to dynamically creating sprites (as would be required for any game-type application). The Bible, on the other hand, was clear and precise about this and led me to finally understand OOP and how to control sprites using OOP in Director.
Demystified is not a bad book, don't get me wrong: It is huge and has lots of information in it. I just find that the Bible constantly has the answers I'm looking for as I work on real-world applications whereas Demystified, in spite of it's size, frequently doesn't.
Rating: 5
Summary: Clear, practical guide to Director 7
Comment: I turned to this book after making the mistake of buying Lingo Sorcery to learn object-oriented programming in Director. It was a great relief to find (at last) a coherent introduction to OOP in Lingo, with lots of examples in the text and code on the CD. The rest of the book is terrific, too.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Work of Art
Comment: 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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Title: Director 7 Demystified: The Official Guide to Macromedia Director, Lingo and Shockwave (Demystified) by Jason Roberts, Phil Gross ISBN: 0201354454 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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