Learning Director
g e n e r a l
- Macromedia Director Developers Center
- Basic to advanced Director tutorials and technotes
- Multimedia Help offers a collection of sample movies aimed for beginning Directorites.
- DirectThis! resources from Omni Creative
- DreamLight's Director Talisman
- CleverMedia's Lingo Page
- LOOPE - Lingo Object Oriented Programming Environment by Irv Kalb is intended for Lingo programmers who wish to learn how to write object oriented code in Lingo
- Mark Arend's Development Techniques include popular solutions to recurring Lingo/Director problems
- Dr. Diego's Lingo Tips
- Macromedia Director 101 a webMonkey article
- Director 6.5 Tries to Get the Web a webMonkey article
- Nightwares is Warren "the Howdy Man" Okrassa's Director resource site
- John Dowdell does not look like Clint Eastwood but does write about Lingo- good, bad, or ugly?
- Programmer's Virtual Library
- Help.com's resource collection on Director
b o o k s
- See the
list of Director books from Amazon.com
- Real Time 3D Games -- Creating 3D Games in Director 8.5
- Director 8.5: The Complete Reference by David Mennenoh
- Amazon.com's Director Book reviews
- Director 7 and Lingo Bible by Robert Martin, John R. Nyquist, Jonathan P. Bacon
- Director in a Nutshell and Lingo in a Nutshell by Bruce Epstein. See also Bruce's sample code and extra content
- Comprehensive Guide to Lingo, Director 6 Book, and Using Director 7 (Special Edition) by Gary Rozenzwieg
- Director 7 and Lingo Authorized by Phil Gross
- Director Demystified by Jason Roberts. This is an 800 page book with companion CD-ROM that "uses real-world projects to explain Director" Plus they give Director Web a huge plug!
- Inside Director With Lingo by Lee Allis et. el.
- Lingo Programmers' Reference by Darrel Plant and Doug Smith
- Lingo Sorcery: The Magic of Lists, Objects and Intelligent Agents by Peter Small... and the Director Web's own web site continuation and demo courtesy of Peter himself.
- Macromedia Director Lingo Workshop, by John Thompson, the "godfather" of Lingo.
- Two opinions on Official Macromedia Director Studio
- Shocking the Web by Cathy Clarke, Lee Swearingten, and David K. Anderson
- Shockwave Studio by Bob Schmitt
- Xtravaganza!: The Essential Sourcebook for Macromedia Xtras
- Roy Pardi's list of books for director
- Macromedia Press a joint effort of the big M and PeachPit Press Peachpit also publishes the Visual QuickStart Guides by Andre Persidsky.
c l a s s e s
- Sessions.edu online course in Director Basics
- Basic Director Class at NYU
t u t o r i a l s
- Additive Blending in SW3D Tutorial from NoiseCrime Productions
- Basic Director tutorials from the University of Hertsfordshire (UK)
- Mix Media with Director 7 from Learnlots.com
- Lingo Web Tutorial a project of the Advisory Group on Computer Graphics is intended to provide instruction, with clear examples, in using Lingo.
- Learn OOPs by programming Space Invaders
- Cours de programmation à l'aide du langage LINGO (french) Lingo programming tutorial by Roger Morin
t i p s
- CleverMedia Developer Resources
- Tom McGinness reports on tips from Terry Schussler's seminar
- Jim Collins' Smoke & Mirrors Technotes
l i s t s e r v s
- Direct-L; see also Mind Your Manners on Direct-L
- Lingo-l
- Shocker-L
- Spanish Direct-L
- Direct@r_List (German)
- V12-L for users of the V12 Database Xtra
n e w s g r o u p s
- alt.multimedia.director
- Macromedia's newsgroups
m a n u a l s
- Ldoc+ (Lingo Doc Plus) lists more than one hundred and fifty corrections to definite errors in the "Lingo Dictionary" of Macromedia Director
- Michael Scaramozzino lists errors in the "Learning Lingo" manual for D6.
c d r o m
- Learning Director 8.5 CD-ROM from Lynda.com, a movie-based workshop that was developed for beginning Director users.
- Demo for directorDirect [Mac 2600k]...Michael Bashista's impressions of the directorDirect CD-ROM.
- Interactive Design House Inc. (IHD) has officially released it's demo of "Director by Example" CD-ROM for Mac/Windows and Director 4 and 5.
- The Lingo TimeSaver by Gretchen Macdowall
- Chris Malley reviews the interface of the MediaBook CD-ROM.
j o u r n a l s
- Lingo Users Journal (LUJ)
- Macromedia Users Journal (MUJ)