Director 7 and Lingo Authorized (2nd Edition)

by Karen Tucker and Phil Gross

This text shows how to use Director 7 and Lingo Authorized - multimedia authoring tools. The CD-ROM contains practice files and complete demo versions of Macromedia programs with step-by-step work... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201354160
• ISBN13: 9780201354164
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Length: 771 Pages
• Weight: 3.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

New to Director 7 ?

BUY this book. - Explanations are a little rough - and sometimes seem a little "cut-off". Probably a problem with me because I have no prior multimedia editing experience. General knowledge of multimedia programs similiar to this program is helpful. GOOD, easy to follow tutorials are explained. A problem I sometimes had was when I did NOT get the result that The TUTORIAL SAID i WAS SUPPOSED TO GET. Me, being such a premie, I didn't know how to trouble-shoot it. This book is still one of the best out of the 4 DIRECTOR 7 books I purchased. DO NOT BUY THE DIRECTOR 7 QUICK START guide BY PEACH-PIT IF YOU ARE NEW to director 7 ! I SPENT TOO MUCH TIME reading entire book and - LEARNED NOTHING THAT THIS BOOK DIDN'T TEACH ME IN THE FIRST few CHAPTERS!

Excellent learning guide and environment

I had years of experience with the most common presentation software. I always was afraid of Director because I believed it to be the best but I had seen one designer work with it and was concerned about the difficulties and intricacies of the program and learning the programing language. Until one month ago I did not know a single single word about programming with Director and bought two books that allowed me to brake the ice by myself, and became seriously interested. I received this book (the third one I have) four days ago, and already devoured and programmed the excercises in the first 117 pages. I can now understand some of the readers comments, about the learning experience. I am a teacher myself, and appreciate a good teaching or learning aid. This book is just perfect, and a marvelous hands on learning tutor that will allow even a 57 year old like me leave behind the fear and enter the magic world of working with Director.

Celebrate those who want to learn. That's the book!

Considering the technical aspects, most books one can find in online bookstores are a must when it comes to content but just a few seem to be written to catch one's mind from cover to cover in a learning/teaching-centered continuum progressively, without "soring" the learners' good will. This book does more than conveying step-by-step information on such a complex-at-first-sight software. It guides anybody to multimedia skill building-up, providing for both visual learners (those who need to see the pop-up menus) and those who learn by conceptualizing. So, it adapts to your way of learning besides monitoring every step you take during the process. It tells you how long you should accomplish the tasks, when you are going to learn some other features involved in a lesson and it even tells you when to save. That would be the kind of father I'd like to have. As a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language and a real beginner learner, I sincerely advise this book to those who teach too, even if they already know everything about Director 6 and 7. This book shows computing teachers how people learn and how teachers should teach. The CD-ROM is great and essential for the development of the course. Although I can not open the Director7 movies in Director 6, all the files are fully available and you can accomplish the projects by following what the book says: import file from the CD-ROM and do it accordingly to the instructions. Both CD and book require no improvisation for learning since everything is very well planned and put up togheter. Well, in a nutshell, this a TEN-STAR book for both experienced Macromedia teachers and Director 6/7 wannabes. Phil does not gross anybody out with it.

Quite useful book

I'm an experienced programmer but new to Director. The book did a good job of walking me through many of the facets of Director. Be forewarned -- it just covers the basics (at best) of LINGO. I would have loved it if each chapter had 3 or 4 more projects that one could try (even if they weren't documented at all in the book) to give one more ideas of how to use Director efficiently and effectively.