Internet and Programming Tutorials

Most of these tutorials are released under the Gnu Free Documentation License. More information about the license is available within each tutorial and at the Gnu FDL web site.

AppleScript Basics

Basic AppleScript to automate the use of your Macintosh. (Feb 18, 2006)

Easy Web Design

Creating basic web pages with Netscape Composer. (Jun 8, 2007)

JavaScript for Beginners

Basic JavaScript to enhance your viewers’ reading experience. (Apr 27, 2008)

MySQL for Other Applications

The basics of working with MySQL for users of other applications such as Dreamweaver, PHP, Perl, or Python. (Feb 22, 2008)

PHP for Dynamic Web Pages

Basic PHP to store form data. (Apr 27, 2008)

Perls Before Swine

A basic Perl tutorial covering reading files, filtering files, importing into SQL databases, and displaying on the web. (Jun 19, 2007)

Simple Photorealism using Persistence of Vision

Simple photorealism for people who can’t draw. This tutorial guides you through using the free Persistence of Vision ray-tracer. You’ll create a planet, with rings and an orbiting moon set against a starry background. (Feb 17, 2007)

Come to Valhalla

Valhalla is—or was—a MOO. MOO is a ‘programming language’ for creating multi-user dungeons (MUD). MOO is object oriented (thus, MUD, Object Oriented). MOO was created by Pavel Curtis and Xerox PARC, who are to be commended for their work. While MOO is ancient technology, there are still people who find it fun and useful. (Sep 6, 2000)

Evaluating Information

Some things on the net are true, some things are not, and many are both. If you want to believe impossible things before breakfast, however, you can do so just as easily off the net as on the net. The best evaluation techniques will work for any information, not just Internet information. We have never been able to trust the printed word. (Jul 27, 2002)

Gender Neutral Instructions

Writing for all of your readers. (Jul 27, 2002)

HTML Writing Guide

Creating basic web pages with straight HTML code. (Jan 21, 2007)

Joy of Access

What the net has to offer you. This tutorial is quite old, and hasn’t been updated since the last century. I’m leaving it available mostly for historical reasons. I’m not likely to write a newer version. (Jul 27, 2002)

Web Design for the Rest of Them

Prepare yourself to enter the mid-1990s, when not all browsers supported tables, let alone javascript and style sheets. This ancient tutorial discusses writing pages to support browsers with varying support of the new-fangled web. (Sep 6, 2000)