Publisher: Peachpit Press
Author: Jason Roberts
User level: Beginner - Intermediate for Mac & Win
ISBN: 0-201-88423-2
Pages: 823pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: $39.95 US
http://www.peachpit.com
Publisher: Ventana Communications Group
Author: Gary Rosenzweig
User level: All levels for Mac & Win
ISBN: 1-56604-463-4
Pages: 792pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: $49.99 US;
http://www.vmedia.com
Publisher: New Riders / Macmillan Computer Publishing
Author: Lee Allis, Gretchen Macdowall, John Chambers, et al.
User level: Accomplished - Expert
ISBN: 1-56205-567-4
Pages: 908pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: 46.99 NET UK
http://www.mcp.com/newriders
Reviews:
" I'd rate it at around 3.5 to 4 out of five, as it's pretty comprehensive and takes a fresh look at some bits not usually covered by Director books (e.g. digital video).
The book is aimed at intermediate and wannabe advanced, taking over from the manuals. This isn't a Peter Small type brainbender. It takes a much more commercial line than originally intended but there are enough gems in there to keep most folks satisfied. It's just that the price is a bit steep even if the ROM has some good stuff on it.
NOTE WELL that I'm extremely biased as I wrote the Digital Video chapter!"(Matt Davis 34.9.96)
Rating/5
Publisher: New Riders / Macmillan Computer Publishing
Author: Lee Allis, Gretchen Macdowall, John Chambers, et al.
User level: Accomplished - Expert
ISBN: 1-56205-608-5
Pages: 904pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: 46.99 NET UK
http://www.mcp.com/newriders
Reviews:
"I'd rate it at around 3.5 to 4 out of five, as it's pretty comprehensive and takes a fresh look at some bits not usually covered by Director books (e.g. digital video).
The book is aimed at intermediate and wannabe advanced, taking over from the manuals. This isn't a Peter Small type brainbender. It takes a much more commercial line than originally intended but there are enough gems in there to keep most folks satisfied. It's just that the price is a bit steep even if the ROM has some good stuff on it.
NOTE WELL that I'm extremely biased as I wrote the Digital Video chapter!"(Matt Davis 34.9.96)
Rating/5
Publisher: New Riders / Macmillan Computer Publishing
Author: Tab Julius
User level: Accomplished - Expert for Mac & Win 4.0 & 5.0
ISBN: 1-56205-592-5
Pages: 450pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: 41.99 NET UK
http://www.mcp.com/newriders
Review:
"The cover caption says "advanced" but it's more like intermediate really. Not for beginners, but if you know the basics of lingo and want to find out more about when and how to use global variables, puppets, etc. to the best effect and write flexible streamlined scripts, then this is a good place to look.
It kind of takes of where "lingo workshop" ends (except for the object orientated stuff at the back of LW). It also has a little bit on shockwave.
Comes with a CD (containing examples, a demo version of director and some Xtras) and covers both Director 4 and 5."(Alec East 5.9.96)
Title: Macromedia Director Lingo Workshop for Macintosh, Second Edition
Publisher: Hayden Books / Macmillan Computer Publishing
Author: John "J.T." Thompson
User level: New - Accomplished 5.0
ISBN: 1-56830-287-8
Pages: 346pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: 41.50 NET UK
http://www.mcp.com/hayden
Reviews;
" a good book for beginner to intermmediate level but not, as
it claims on the sleeve, "the complete resource to lingo scripting",the
book contains a well written series of lessons (backed up on CD)
and attempts ,briefly, to cover object oriented programming in
one chapter (unsuccesfully). I would like to have seen a explanation
of 'why' as well as just 'how' to do a certain routine eg; more
on the theory and practical use of lists and arrays." (simon crab
2.9.96)
"A must." (Bassem Abdallah 3.9.96)
Rating/5
Publisher: Hayden Books / Macmillan Computer Publishing
Author: John "J.T." Thompson
User level: New - Accomplished 5.0
ISBN: 1-56830-287-8
Pages: 346pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: 41.50 NET UK
http://www.mcp.com/hayden
Publisher: Ventana Communications Group
Author: Deborah M. Miller & Michael D. Miller
User level: Intermediate - Advanced for Mac & Win
ISBN: 1-56604-289-5
Pages: 512pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: 36.95 NET UK
http://www.vmedia.com
Publisher: MIS: Press
Author: Jennifer Bennett
User level: Beginner - Intermediate 5.0
ISBN: 1-55828-487-7
Pages: 352pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: $29.95 US
Publisher: Ventana Communications Group
Author: Darrel Plant
User level: All Levels for Mac & Win 5.0
ISBN: 1-56604-441-3
Pages: 359pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: $49.95 US
http://www.vmedia.com
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Author: Peter Small
User level: Intermediate - Advanced
ISBN: 0-47196-302-X
Pages: N/A
Price: 19.95 NET UK
http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/17/96302-X.html
Publisher: Hayden Books / Macmillan Computer Publishing
Author: Jason Yeaman & Victoria Dawson
User level: Intermediate - Advanced for Mac & Win
ISBN: 1-56830-275-4
Pages: 177pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: 27.95 NET UK
http://www.mcp.com/hayden
Publisher: New Riders / Macmillan Computer Publishing
Author: Sasha Magee & Noel Rabinowitz
User level: All Levels for Mac & Win
ISBN: 1-56205-595-X
Pages: 288pg book w/ companion CD-ROM
Price: 27.99 NET UK
http://www.mcp.com/newriders
Publisher: Delmar Publishers
Author: Matthew Holtz
User level: Intermediate for Win
ISBN: 1-88934-713-2
Pages: 150pg book
Price: $49.95 US
http://itp.thomson.com
Publisher: MacAcademy / Windows Academy
User level: All levels
Videos: 1 through 5, all current, vary by topic
Price: $49.00 US per volume
http://www.macacademy.com
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
Author: Michael Callery
User level: All levels for Mac & Win 4.0.4
ISBN: 0-201-87043-6
Pages: 352pg book & companion CD-ROM
Price: $34.95 US;
http://www.aw.com/devpress
Reviews:
"Doesn't really improve on Macromedia's own ' Using Lingo' which I think is excellent. I had endless problems with the CDrom and got nowhere with Addison-Wesley on the phone... This put me off!" (Guy Becket 4.9.96)
Rating/5
Publisher: Ziff-Davis Press / Macmillan Computer Publishing
Author: Scott Fisher
User level: All levels for Mac & Win 4.0.4
ISBN: 1-56276-306-7
Pages: 244pg book
Price: 22.99 NET UK
http://www.mcp.com/zdpress
Publisher: Random House / New Media Series
Author: Gary Chapman
User level: Beginner - Intermediate for Mac & Win 4.0
ISBN: 0-679-15800-3
Pages: 256pg book & CD-ROM
Price: 41.99 NET UK
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Author: Andre Persidsky & Helmut Kobler
User level: Beginner - Intermediate
ISBN: 1-56609-138-1
Pages: 220pg book
Price: $18.95 US;
http://www.peachpit.com
Publisher: Hayden Books / Macmillan Computer Publishing
Author: Cathy Clarke & Lee Swearingen
User level: All levels for Mac & Win through 4.0
ISBN: 1-56830-062-X
Pages: 198pg book & companion CD-ROM
Price: $29.99 US
http://www.mcp.com/hayden
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co.
Author: Matthew Holtz
User level: Intermediate for Mac & Win
ISBN: 0-53431-073-7
Pages: 150pg book
Price: $27.00 US
http://itp.thomson.com
Publisher: Random House Electronic Publishing
Author: Tony Bové
User level: Beginner - Intermediate for Mac & Win 4.0
ISBN: 0-679-75321-4
Pages: 376pg book & CD-ROM
Price: 37.49 NET UK
Review:
"Good introduction. CD full of jolly animations. These made my first attempts at Director seem marginally less pathetic to interested friends..." (Guy Becket 4.9.96)
Rating/5
Title:Shockwave Studio - Designing Multimedia for the web
Author: Bob Schmit.
This review comes from the perspective of a designer rather than
a programmer, Someone who would rather deal with pictures than
numbers and generally approached lingo books with a feeling of
trepedation and a deep sigh. Many a time I've been frustrated
by the "programmer speak" in suchbooks, I don't speak "programmer"
and don't really want to, I just want to know how to get A to
do B, while C does something funky, and make it all look pretty
darned good whilst its doing it too please. I've battled with
various lingo tutorials and generally, I've ended up giving up
and goingback to using he good ol' score to get the job done. This
one however, actually seems to be aiming vaguely in my direction.Although,
I have used director for animation extensively for quite sometime
now, I have managed to avoid writing lingo any more advanced
than the popping of a couple of global variables here and the
odd list there. Thats the level I'm at, and that's the sort of
level this book aims at. This book isn't intended to be the definitive
guide to lingo and director,and its not. Its probably best used
in conjunction with the manuals and lingo dictionaries and if
its someting really smart you want to be doing,its probably also
helpful to be sat next to a friendly programmer. But, if its a
step by step introduction to some cool things you can do with
shockwave, that you're after, along with a history of the product
straightfrom its creator, and a whole load of "tips n' tricks"
backed up by director examples (shown in print and also a few
examples on CD) then this is a pretty good starting point. Because
designing with shockwave isn't just about using Director, this
book features stuff you really need to know for creating shockwave
work for the web , from ways of reducing the sizes of your files,
to sorting out your palettes so the colours don't all screw up
as soon as you play your file on a different browser, to"seemlessly"
integrating your movies into your pages (well as seemlessly as
you're gonna get at this point in time anyway) There's even a
section on uploading your files, a rather fundamental point that
would probably come in handy if no one has let you in on the secret
just yet (other books always seem to assume that someone has).With
the arrival of streaming sound on the scene, it is very useful
that the whole of chapter 11 is devoted to sound compression,
streaming and top tips. So if it's a buzzing, clicking, singing,
streaming, (really annoying?!) app, you're aiming for then this
is a pretty comprehensive guide to how to go about it. Although,I
was expecting more on this particular subject to be found on
the CD andwas disappointed by the lack of examples. I'd summarize
by saying that if you design for the web, have used Director before
but aren't a lingo guru, and you want to know how to do some jazzy
things using Shockwave without ending up headbutting your monitor
in frustration, if you want smaller faster files and basically
want to get to grips with shockwave as a medium, then this is
a pretty good place to start reading.
(reviewed by Katie Waters)
Publisher: Hayden Books
Author: Cathy Clarke
Review: Waste of time. Some examples of work done, but no great shakes. Includes a CD.(Bassem Abdallah)