Lingo? non-beginner tutorials & books..

[Steven Henry]

Hello,
I was wondering if anybody could suggest a good online non-beginner
Lingo/Director tutorial for experienced Java/Actionscript programmers.

Also, usully when I learn a new language I buy the relevent Oreilly book.
The current one is for Lingo in a Nutshell: for Director 5, 6 & 6.5?? From
what i've read on amazon, you guys give it good revews.. but isn't that
extremly old!.. am i missing something? Could someone suggest a good
reference book?

/Steven Henry

[Richie Bisset]

there are several. I personally use director demystified which has
tutorials at verious levels and an excellent reference section. I have
lingo in a nutshell, but find myself looking to demystified more for
reference (maybe it's just cause i got used to that reference section
first) i also have advanced lingo programming for games, which is
pretty damn good, and director authorised, which compared to the
others is pretty much useless. I have also heard that dave mennenoh's
book is excellent (it's called director, the complete reference).

as for web resources there are several

[url]www.mediamacros.com[/url] covers pretty much every area of director with
articles, tutorials behaviours and games open source projects
available for download

[url]www.crackconspiracy.com/~davem[/url] dave mennenoh's site

[url]www.updatestage.com[/url] contains links and descriptions for pretty much
every xtra availlable for director, as well as several articles and
tutorials within the director info section.

[url]www.setpixel.com[/url] has some pretty interesting imaging lingo tutorials

[url]http://www.theburrow.co.uk/d85/index.htm[/url] 3d demos and tutorials

[url]http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director/[/url] - dean utian's excellent
tutorial site for the university of new south wales

Finally, you mention that you use javascript. if you are at a fairly
advanced level then it may be worth taking a look at
[url]www.openLingo.org[/url], the site isn't up yet, but you can join the group
from there.The idea is to build a large archive of open source lingo
similar to what the perl community (and several others) have done.

apologies if i forgot any useful tutorial sites

hope this helps,

richie


On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 15:53:10 -0000, "Steven Henry"
<steven@automelodic.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>I was wondering if anybody could suggest a good online non-beginner
>Lingo/Director tutorial for experienced Java/Actionscript programmers.
>
>Also, usully when I learn a new language I buy the relevent Oreilly book.
>The current one is for Lingo in a Nutshell: for Director 5, 6 & 6.5?? From
>what i've read on amazon, you guys give it good revews.. but isn't that
>extremly old!.. am i missing something? Could someone suggest a good
>reference book?
>
>/Steven Henry
>
>