Tutorial Survival Guide

Posted on March 9th, 2009

Guide to Writing Good Tutorials
By: Sazzad Hossain & Shrud Studios

What is a tutorial?
We all know that the computer presents new concepts and skills through interactive text, illustrations, descriptions, questions and problems. Information is sequenced to build on previously learned concepts, and often provides feedback and guidance. So to keep others upto par and help them understand “how to do” something is what a tutorial is. In short terms, tutorial is a set of ordered instruction that teaches someone something new. Tutorials can be on almost any subject. It can be on how to create a new solar powered motor, write a research paper, to build a robot, or how to survive your wife. But for the sake of “keeping the flow,” on this forum we will keep it relating to the WEB and PROGRAMMING in general.

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