Macromedia Director MX 2004: Training from the Source [With CD-ROM]

By Dave Mennenoh

Project-based volume offers self-paced training in Macromedia's flagship multimedia authoring environment! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321223659
• ISBN13: 9780321223654
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Macromedia Press
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Awesome book

This is a truly awesome book. Except for the scattered typos, the book really teaches a lot. You actually work through entire visually appealing real world type projects. The author takes you through step by step with plenty of screenshots to keep you on the right track.

Ambitious and mean... but not lean

A useful and more advanced alternative in relation to the Demystified series and the like. I don't know if this is really "advanced", but it's coverage of themes like creating and managing a SQL database, building a shooting spaceships 2D game, a 3D memory game, and others, was what I considered advanced for years. It was delightful finding myself making this exercises with relative ease. Not for absolute beginners, it requires some 50 hours to devote to this material. Intermediate-advanced.

Great Book!

I purchased this book mainly for 3D Memory, but realized the entire book has helped me to become a better programmer in both 3D and Lingo! My company requested a simple interactive game to include within our leave-behind portfolio demo, so I used 3D memory as the solution. Everyone was thrilled with the outcome, including myself... the tutorial was easy to follow and worked like a charm! Thanks Dave!

Very good book

I got this book for the calendar tutorial and found it quite excellent. It was very thorough and explained the Lingo code well. Now, I'm going to do the 2D space shooter tutorial as it looks like a lot of fun. I recommend this book to anyone wanting a good beginner to intermediate level book on Director.