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Inside Macromedia Director With Lingo

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This book is good for beginner and intermediate level but for who want to know in deep in Lingo, you have to looking for other books.

If I want to hear how good Director is, I'd go to the Macromedia web site. This book does not go into the specific. It tells you WHAT you can do with Director not actaully HOW to do it. The money I spent on this book does not worth the education I received from it. Oh well, Director 7 is coming out by the time you read this, lt's hope these guys would do a better job at actaully writing a reference book instead of a brouchure.

This book was the required text for my multimedia authoring class because no other Director 6 books were available at the time. It was so poorly laid out that after a few weeks my instructor gave up on teaching with the book. Now that I use Director at work, I've realized that it doesn't even cut it as a reference.

Inside Director tries to teach general multimedia rather than the fundamentals of Director. The book attempts to teach you how to create sound and digital movies in other programs(Which has nothing to do with learning Director), yet it severely lacks in explaining how to handle sound and movies in Director. The book also teaches you more about how to write HTML(Which also has nothing to do with learning Director), then how to create streaming shockwave movies with net Lingo.

Save your money and buy a different book.

This is an excellent book for beginning multimedia developers. I use it in the classroom and find it an invaluable text and reference for my students. There are better books available for Lingo, but this one is a great start -- comprehensive but easy to understand!

Personally I would suggest every begginer or intermediate Director user to read this book. I think it explains what outher books didn`t!!