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Title: Authorized by not the best
Review: macromedia's Authorized series of books are fine if you must learn by being hand-held through a series of steps throughout. Unfortunately, you miss out on the context of what you're doing if you just follow steps. A much better book, especially for the beginner, is Roberts/Gross's Director X Demystified. That book assumes that you want to learn the whys and not just the by-the-numbers hows of multimedia development. Demystified also covers Lingo in much more depth.
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