Spot false dilemmas now, ask me how!
(If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
Siva
Co-Author - SCMAD Exam Guide - ISBN:9780070077881
Author - Java certification success, Part 4: SCEA
Originally posted by Kathy Sierra:
Hee-hee
...But the book is also about just making good movies on a home-user budget, using standard filmmaking techniques, and then putting them to work using Final Cut software.
...We're aiming this book at geeks (hip geeks, of course) who want to use their digital video camera to make anything from really cool movies for their website to teaching/training/instructional videos or documentaries...
Originally posted by Pauline McNamara:
Will the book be helpful for folks not using Final Cut Pro, just for the movie-making stuff in general?
Originally posted by Kathy Sierra:
Yes, definitely! But Final Cut Express 2 has just come out, and it is almost identical to Final Cut Pro 4, but it is under $300 US. The main thing missing from Express 2 is that it's just for video, where Final Cut Pro 4 can be used with film.
At least 1/3 of the book is devoted to techniques that aren't specific to any particular editing tool We also talk a lot about sound/audio/music and we cover three different tools -- one of which is on both the Mac and Windows, but the other two are Mac-only.
Using video as a training tool is something I'm really starting to get interested in, although I think it takes a unique approach. Obviously a talking head isn't going to be much of an asset.
There were some people at Sun who made excellent use of Flash animations to demonstrate things that happened over time like communication between a client and server... one guy had a cool Flash animation that showed the entire lifecycle of an Entity bean.
... if you want to review the draft chapters let me know!! You can always skip all the pieces that teach the software
I'm not going to be a Rock Star. I'm going to be a LEGEND! --Freddie Mercury
It might well be that I simply don't "get" what Flash is all about, and none of the books I have seen so far have cleared up my misunderstanding . . . But isn't that where the "head first" approach comes into its own?
It looks like HF Patterns will be coming out shortly there-after, but that's not totally set to go yet..
---<br />Erik Weibust<br /><a href="http://erik.weibust.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://erik.weibust.net</a>
Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
Amazon Top 750 reviewer - Blog - Unresolved References - Book Review Blog
42
Originally posted by E Weibust:
One thing that seemed weird. Why did you do the EJB book before the Servlet/JSP book? .
---<br />Erik Weibust<br /><a href="http://erik.weibust.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://erik.weibust.net</a>
Spot false dilemmas now, ask me how!
(If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
Spot false dilemmas now, ask me how!
(If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
Originally posted by Bert Bates:
Hi Guys,
...
As far as JSF is concerned, my guess (and it's really, really, really! just a guess!!!), is that when it's time for a new version of the Servlets exam (and I really, really, really, don't know anything about the timing of that :roll: ), we'll see if it (the new, unscheduled SCWCD exam), includes any JSF topics. If it does, then of course a new, hypothetical HF Servlets book would have to have a JSF section.
hth,
Bert
SCJP, SCJD, SCWCD, SCBCD
With a little knowledge, a cast iron skillet is non-stick and lasts a lifetime. |