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Special Edition Using Macromedia Director 8.5

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This is a fantastic book for people that want to learn Director from scratch. It assumes you know nothing of the program to begin with, and it guides you to mastery, one step at a time.

I would heartily recommend this book to programmers that have never worked with Lingo before, but look for a book that covers more or less everything. The book presents numerous examples of applications, that will little more effort can look very professional. Six chapters offer complete applications (games, educational apps, business, grafx and sound apps) that can really help you start rapidly. Excellent appendices complete this already full book.

Of all the programming books I have bought, this one has won its place just by the monitor - a rare honour. Whenever I am programming Director, this is a reference I must have handy.

I have recommended this book to all my students, as I recommend it to you! Congratulations Mr. Rosenberg!

This book is probably the best book you will ever find on how to use Director. I read it without knowing anything about programming and i am pretty advanced now. If you feel that you are a really slow learner and/or you have no experience using a computer, don't try to learn anything about director. If, however, you are a motivated student, Gary Rozensweig will teach you from the ground up about this ultra-powerful program. For 36 dollars, it's almost a must. This book will also be great for advanced director users as a reference. get it quickly. The only drawback of this book is the fact that one of the most important appendices is almost totally missing(publishing error). There is a downloadable version of the appendix on QUE's site (HTML & PDF). Don't let this tiny glitch stop you from owning the best book on director out there!!!

Weighing in at about one-thousands pages, this book has some of the best information for practical production techniques and getting things done in Director. Having compared it to a half dozen or so other books before purchasing, it was the only one to truly address Lingo in a serious way. There seems to be a hole in the market since a few Lingo specific books that had been available at one time (from O'Reilly and another from the defunct Hayden Press) are either out of date or out of print.

Though its a heavy application, most of director is not that hard to learn (being proficient and artistic is another matter). But taking it to the next level requires an understanding of Lingo and integrating it into the rest of the programs features for practical use. Mr. Rosenzweig has done this, and with great enthusiasm and love of subject. It is an excellent book and the most advanced one that I could find on the shelves last year.

The beginner should take heed that this may be overwhelming, for all others I highly recommend it.

This book is very compete, covering all the major Director features in a friendly and professional way. The book might be slightly intimidating for people unused to Director, or timeline based animation/programming before, but don't let that put you off...the book is a great reference tool even for beginners.

Great book ! ( I just received my copy of Using Director 8.5 "Specialedition") It is really great for me since I haven't been using Director since version 5, and so much as changed !
I have been browsing through the book to get the missing or forgotten info I need to get our project up, and I have found almost every answer I need in the first 15 minutes !

I am confident this book will get me back up and running in no time, If you want to learn Director Fast, Buy this book !

Im only part way through this book and have learned quite a bit. I definetly recommend it for anyone who wants to learn EVERYTHING about this application while getting up and going in a short amount of time.

Great Director book,

By reading it you'll learn in a easy way to use the program.

This is an extensive guide and every Multimedia or web designer should have one.

Has helped me in many projects and very complex ones

Gary has done an excellent job with this book. I came to Director with a programming background, and basically this book and Gary's Advanced Lingo for Games books have allowed me to do whatever I can imagine with Director. Doesn't treat you like an idiot. Clear. Understandable. Practical. Highly recommended, and I'm going to buy the MX version when it comes out.
David Downie

Great book ! ( I just received my copy of Using Director 8.5 "Specialedition") It is really great for me since I haven't been using Director since version 5, and so much as changed !

I have been browsing through the book to get the missing or forgotten info I need to get our project up, and I have found almost every answer I need in the first 15 minutes !

I am confident this book will get me back up and running in no time, If you want to learn Director Fast, Buy this book !

If you must buy just one book on Director, this is it. The weakness of this book, though, is on Imaging Lingo and 3D Lingo.
For more in depth treatments on these topics you need to try some other books.