Your favorite resources about effective learning in Captivate?

Hi,
I'm just getting started with Captivate, though I've been working in instructional design in digital publishing for education for a while. Now I'm going for my master's, and I'm planning on doing some hands-on action research about effective ways to creating branching-path experiences using Captivate.
I'd love to know your favorite websites, articles, blogs, books, etc. for finding out how best to use Captivate, not just technically, but some pedagogical some best practices. The same applies to any sources about best practice for branching-path projects as well. I'm already exploring Adobe's offerings.
Thanks!

For python, I like the cherrypy code. Clean and down to earth. For c, I have a number of favorite projects: evince, zlib, dwm, openbox, lua, libpeas, cogl, and clutter. Look on Browse github by language, look at the top projects and see how they are put together, but don't get discouraged! Some of the projects are daunting, absolutely massive, or have weird programming style. Just stick to your guns and look for the simple ones, when you are ready, go back and look at the really complex projects (V8 anyone?) and try to figure out the entry point and work you way from there. I would also highly recommend ack to help you find stuff in a source tree.

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