Director 8 and Lingo Authorized (3rd Edition) (Authorized)

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Great book that makes Director manageable for beginners!:

I've been trying to learn Director for the past 3 years. Finding a class that is not an intensive course is impossible in my area. This book presents the information in small, manageable bites. I recommend this book for anyone that wants to learn Director from the basics. Like the other "Training from the Source" books by Macromedia, this book is broken into 1 hour lessons that allow you to absorb the information at your pace.

I highly recommend it.

Great starter book:

After working through Director's tutorial and paying for online training, this book is filling in the gaps and preparing me for more advanced work. Because the book not only tells you what to do, it explains clearly why you are doing it, the book is far superior to the paid online training. With my background, I jumped in about halfway and only use beginning chapters as a reference. The only way to beat this for value is doing the free training on the web to get started with Director. Not being a... more info

Great beginner book:

The book is an excellent walkthrough for beginners - the fact that they took into account a lot of common mistakes and diagrams to show you EXACTLY what they mean shows that a lot of research went into it to keep you from being stuck. This saves you a lot of time and it's not a pain like some books which skip some steps or contain ambiguous words that leave you frustratingly stuck. Sure, it takes up a lot of space but I rather a heavy book than a thin one that wastes my time. Because of this, I found that I... more info

too rudimentary for even the absolute beginner:

our school used to provide this book to the students of its director-intro-class.

more then the first half of the book focuses on linear-score-animation. it is not until well into the book that the reader ever even encounters lingo at all.

the skills demonstrated in this book are the skills which students of our director-intro class posess after the first day.

now.. if you want to do nothing more than corporate, powerpoint presentations in director and don't know how to do them, then this is the book... more info

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