General Tutorial Sites

University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire - a wide range of online tutorials, including MS Office, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, HTML, Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop and more.

Intelinfo - A comprehensive site with thousands of free tutorials on a wide range of IT topics

Tutorial Find - Thousands of tutorials on a wide range of topics

Animation 

•  My First GIF animation - beginner tutorial on making a Gif animation using GIF construction set (shareware)
•  3D Animation Workshop  - some very good tutorials on creating 3D art and animations (they are pretty technical). Of particular interest for learning the animation process is lesson 7 (and especially parts 2 & 3).

  Principles of animation and cartooning:

  •  How to Animate - Two fantastic tutorials in basic animation techniques (made for "paper and pencil" animating, though the techniques still apply)
  •  Drawing Cartoons Theme Page -general advice on cartooning and animation fundamentals

Audio

• Audacity

Databases 

• W3 School SQL Tutorial
• SQLCourse - Interactive Online SQL Training for Beginners

Flash

• Saskatoon Catholic Schools Flash MX tutorials for year 9 students 
•  W3 Schools Flash Tutorial
•  Hotscripts Flash resource

Graphics

• PaintShop Pro
• Phong - Photoshop/GIMP and a few Flash tutorials - range from straight forward and simple to some very advanced.  Clear and easy to follow - many of the Photoshop tutorials can be used directly with The GIMP.
•  Gimp Basics Tutorial
•  The GIMP tutorials page  
•  More Gimp Tips and Tutorials

* Many of the Photoshop tutorials can be used with the GIMP with little or no modification, particularly if you use GimpShop.

Microsoft Office Software

• Microsoft Office Tutorials (Microsoft Education)

Programming and Scripting

• Squeak. A part-programming-language, part thinking tool that allows students to develop web-based products. Used by primary to tertiary students. 

• The Language Guide - A guide to a range of programming languages. Gives history of the language, outlines main features, areas of application and gives related links and code samples for each.

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist  Free copyleft texts published through the Open Book Project covering Python, Java and C++ programming designed for students with no programming experience. 
•   Hotscripts - scripts, advice and tutorials in a variety of programming languages and scripts including Flash.
   

• Game Programming

  • Ultimate Game Programming - source code to demos that range from beginner (drawing triangles, etc) to the more advanced.  Open GL, Direct X, Java, C++, Flash

• Java

  • Swing A Quick Tutorial for AWT Programmers
  • Demonstration of 3D Class Applet

• MSW LOGO

  •  Softronix Logo Page - downloads, links to other sites, example programs, non-English versions, etc

  •  Programming with Logo (Ian Williams, Rose Bay High School)

  • Book 1

  • Book 2

  • Book 3

  • Book 4

  •  Logo Lessons : simple instructions and worksheets on learning Logo by Michael Koss

  •  An Introduction to MSW Logo : a web based book on learning Logo by Jim Fuller -  may be used online or downloaded free to school intranets.

• Open GL Tutorials:

  • http://www.opengl.org/
  •  http://nehe.gamedev.net/

Video and Multimedia

• Kids' Vid - Instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in the classroom.
• Photostory - Excellent beginners' guide

Web Design Tutorials

W3Schools - all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.

Web Monkey - Large range of tips and tutorials for beginners through to advanced programmers

Echoecho.com - A range of tutorials on Coding (particularly web coding), graphics, design

Developing Webs.net - Tutorials for building and maintaining webs: Graphics, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Html, CSS, FrontPage, Dreamweaver and more.

Colors on the Web - a site dedicated to the use of colours in design, and especially in web design 

Javascript

• See also General Web Design Tutorials, especially Web Monkey and W3Schools

•  Programming 2A Unit - Javascript  - A unit of work by Ian Williams (Rose Bay) - It is intended to be basic and will need to be added to for some students.

•  Hotscripts Javascript  - scripts, tutorials, books etc

•  Dynamic Drive - lots of DHTML and javascripts to enhance your web pages.

• Jim Fuller Javascript tutorial

ASP.Net

  Microsoft ASP.NET QuickStart Tutorial http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/aspplus/

Back

Up

Next

This page has been produced by Margaret Meijers.  Questions concerning its content may be directed by email to margaret.meijers@education.tas.gov.au.  This page was last modified on Sunday, 22 June 2008. The URL for this page is http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/tutorials.htm .

 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License.
Attribution should include the statement: "This has been adapted from a resource originally created by Margaret Meijers at http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au"