Paradox tutorials
I've only got one tutorial here to date, but I'm planning a second one.
HTML tutorial
This tutorial began its life as a "quick and dirty" introduction to HTML. I got enough feedback from it that I decided to expand it and improve it, and this is the result.
The tutorial is divided into three sections, predictably named "beginner", "intermediate", and "advanced". For all three sections, I followed the same principles: you will not see anything in the page code that is not covered by that section or an earlier section at some point. So if you view source on any page in the beginners section, you will not see anything that isn't covered in the beginners section. If you view source on the intermediate section, you will not see anything that isn't covered in either the beginners or intermediate section. Also, all pages have been validated as correct, well-formed, standard HTML.
(Please note that the recent site redesign will involve a review and update of all tutorial pages; in the intervening time, my principle of using the same code I teach may not strictly hold true.)
- Beginners HTML
- After reading through this section and using the information presented, you will be able to create simple but complete and useable web pages and sites. This section does not assume any prior knowledge of HTML; it does assume you know how to create, edit, and save a plain text file, and that you know how to open a file on your hard drive in your web browser.
- Intermediate HTML
- After reading through this section, you should be able to create more complicated and nicer-looking web pages. Most of the techniques used to create this entire site are either beginner or intermediate. This section assumes that you've either read through and understood the above section.
- Advanced HTML
- After reading through this section and both above, you will have covered all parts of the HTML 4.01 specification. This section contains techniques that I've never had reason to use and aren't necessary for a good-looking web site, but have high "neato" quotient.
TeX/LaTeX tutorial
This tutorial isn't presentable yet, not even the introductory bits. It is in the works, though. For more information on Tex/LaTeX, see The University of Cambridge introduction (lots of links to good documentation) and especially the Why LaTeX? page, which has a good explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of LaTeX, and the Word processors: stupid and inefficient and What has WYSIWYG done to us? pages for explanations of what's wrong with WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) word processors and desktop publishing programs.
