Director 8 and Lingo: (Inside Macromedia) [Anglais] [Broché]

INSIDE Macromedia Director 8 & Lingo, the first book in the INSIDE Macromedia Series, features examples and exercises based on multimedia tasks and functions typical of Corporate, Marketing and Educational applications. While assisting you in achieving proficiency using one of today's most popular multimedia development tools, these exercises will also strengthen your overall knowledge of effective authoring techniques. By working through INSIDE Macromedia Director 8, you'll learn to create interactive presentations - regardless of your experience and programming expertise - by zeroing in on the aspects of using Director 8 that are most pertinent to real-world multimedia development.

(Thomson Learning) Teaches the reader how to create leading-edge interactive presentations by zeroing in on the software functionality and capabilities that are needed most. Provides examples and exercises based on multimedia tasks and functions that users encounter in daily work environments. Softcover.

These days, it seems like there is no limit to the things that one can do on a computer. With the right software, any creative idea can be executed. One such program is Director, one of the most widely used multimedia tools available today. With the help of Director, the creative possibilities for presentations, interactive CDs, computer games, and other multimedia applications are limited only by your own imagination-and your Director know-how.

Scott J. Wilson, Ph.D., and Richard Salvetierra have written "Director 8 and Lingo" to ensure that the know-how comes quickly and effectively. Focusing on the 'need-to-know' functions of Director, that are conveniently broken into single-session 'learning chunks' in this book, "Director 8 and Lingo" helps new users quickly learn the essential ins and outs of building interactive multimedia applications.

Firm believers that the best learning occurs through hands-on experience, the authors provide extensive examples and exercises to reinforce the new information. Also included in the book are the tips and shortcuts that only experts and veterans could show a new user. And designed to promote basic-level interactivity, the book presents full coverage of Lingo, Director's scripting language. Wilson and Salvetierra's book, "Director 8 and Lingo", holds your reader's hand as they jump full-speed into Director and the designing of their own multimedia applications.

Scott has been managing the development of multimedia and web development projects for over 17 years, totaling thousands of hours of applications for Fortune 500 corporate clients. He has been teaching Authorware classes within an Authorized Macromedia Training Center for more than 10 years. Scott is the Instructional Architect and co-author for the OnWord Press - Inside Macromedia Series. The Series employs learning strategies that are centered on the concept of "learn-by-doing", offering practical "hands-on" exercises that are reflections of "real-world" applications.