Is there a Bob Ross of coding? I'm looking for a particular style of educational video which shows developers working through problems. It should include a voice over describing what they are trying to accomplish. It should also show the types of decisions they are making as they work through the problem.
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posted by quadog
on Apr 14, 2013 -
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Are there online trainings/tutorials for...well, creating online trainings/tutorials? (Books or other resources also welcome.)
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posted by Stacey
on Dec 18, 2012 -
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How would I replicate this graph / wireframe look easily? Is there a particular name to this?
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posted by nathanm
on Dec 1, 2012 -
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Know of a good resource for mobile-friendly responsive email templates for html emails?
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posted by mgriffioen
on Nov 30, 2012 -
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How do they do that? Artist edition... Please recommend how-to's and how I do this blogs/videos etc...
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posted by jrobin276
on Nov 10, 2012 -
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I'd like to learn bridge - preferably online, although I'm happy to pay for a book or DVD or similar if there's a particularly good one. There seem to be LOADS of things for beginners - can anyone recommend one?
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posted by handee
on Oct 9, 2012 -
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I bought a bass! Can you recommend any specific online tutorials / resources (e.g., on the youtubes) to learn to play the thing? I already play guitar. Bonus: I like Britpop. What are some fun Britpop songs to play on the bass?
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Sep 19, 2012 -
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Part of my current job involves manipulating a large amount of data. I need to learn how to do this more efficiently and on a larger scale. What should I use? What should I learn? What is the best (free) way to teach myself?
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posted by dersins
on Jun 18, 2012 -
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Lynda.com has a very excellent video tutorial covering the essentials of Objective-C. Where else can I find tutorials of this caliber that cover the basics of Mac programming?
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posted by run"monty
on Jun 3, 2012 -
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I have a perfectly good new iPad that is sadly underutilized. I'd like to start sketching and drawing on it, but I have no idea where to start. Help!
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posted by restless_nomad
on May 29, 2012 -
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I would like to scrape information from an RSS feed into an Excel-readable text file for a completely legal non-copyright violating use. In a better world, I'd have access to the database that generates the feed, but since this ain't a perfect world it appears that scraping is my best bet. Are there tools that will help me automate this, or programming tutorials that will help me figure it out myself (it's been 15 years since I last write any code beyond simple SQL queries)?
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posted by croutonsupafreak
on Apr 4, 2012 -
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I see there's a jailbreak for iOS 5 that will work on my iPad2. However, I'm having no luck finding a good tutorial on how this process works. I have a lot of questions, and so far all the tutorials I have found are either "click the button and you are done" (I don't trust that!) or are geared for people who have jailbroken 100s of devices and assume a lot of prior knowledge that I don't have.
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posted by jcdill
on Feb 29, 2012 -
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Need to give mom some basic training on her new mac air – Like
basic: how to use the track pad, clicking, selecting, saving docs, etc. Sites? Tutorials? Ideas?
posted by pmaxwell
on Jan 4, 2012 -
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There is a series of HTML tutorials/lessons that are kid centric, but very well done. The site is structured with lessons and you can edit the HTML in the page (left hand side) and see it rendered on the right hand side.
I remember there being a cartoon character wearing purple related to the site. Also yellow/orange.
What site is this?
posted by BrothersCollins
on Jan 4, 2012 -
6 answers
I want to learn how to make electronic music. But I need to learn in a way that guides me...very...slowly...and directedly. (Also, as free-of-charge as humanly possible.)
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posted by threeants
on Nov 5, 2011 -
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I'd like to get my feet wet with Perl. Baby steps, just a little beyond "Hello World." I'd like to create a simple little app. I have a few questions...
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posted by circular
on Jun 27, 2011 -
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I got invited to play D&D with a couple folks I really like. Help me not embarrass myself!
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posted by GilloD
on May 17, 2011 -
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I've been working with SQL and RDBMSes for a number of years, but my most recent job involved no DB work at all. Understandably, I'm a bit rusty. So I'd like to get a good book to help me brush up, and also to learn a bit more about RDBMS technology. What would you recommend?
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posted by Sloop John B
on May 3, 2011 -
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How can I make a video like
this one for Cee-lo Green's Fuck You? What kind of program(s) would I need? Are there any tutorials? Any terms for what this is called would be helpful too, because my googling has been rather unsuccessful. Thanks!
posted by jouir
on Mar 29, 2011 -
5 answers
I know that some fairly recent video games, at least as recent as Ocarina of Time, have moments where characters (or physical signposts) inside of the game talk about the buttons that the player has to hit. I have a vague memory of this occurring in much older games, maybe characters in NES games saying "make sure you equip your weapon on the start menu" or things like that , but I can't locate them. Can anyone verify times where this happens?
posted by pacmanides
on Feb 17, 2011 -
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My girlfriend's son is in a band, and he wants to start adding synth/electronic stuff to his music. I personally some stuff, and could write some stuff up, but I'm looking for a really good basic overview of the technology (not necessarily too detailed, but if it got into details later, it would be ok, perhaps).
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posted by symbioid
on Jan 11, 2011 -
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Does anyone know of any online resources dealing with mixing music for a narrated audio documentary?
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posted by brynnwood
on Nov 21, 2010 -
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From 0-Hero programming filter: Help me build a long term learning plan to go from a cursory knowledge about how to control and fix my machines to a capability to control and manipulate my machines to do what I will them?
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posted by elationfoundation
on Oct 6, 2010 -
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Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python is mentioned a lot as a great way to learn the Python programming language. Does something comparable exist for C++?
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posted by lekvar
on Jul 7, 2010 -
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My programming tutorials look terrible on YouTube. I wouldn't care except that it's hard to read the code. This isn't just the way YouTube is. I am looking at other people's tutorials, and I can read their code. How do I encode/upload videos so that they look as good as possible?
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posted by grumblebee
on Jul 5, 2010 -
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My mom wants a simple computer for internet use, email and word processing, and she's interested in an iPad. The question: would this work? The problem: she's computer illiterate. (Related question: any good systems for teaching an older newbie about computers?) More details inside.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jun 21, 2010 -
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I've set up some clients with fairly complex Wordpress sites and now I have to teach them how to use the Wordpress back-end. I'm looking for any good tutorials and print-outs that would help someone with zero wp or CMS experience to do simple things like write/edit Posts and Pages, add images or youtube videos to a Post, enter data into custom keys. Basically, equip them so they can maintain the site on a day-to-day basis.
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posted by dripdripdrop
on May 19, 2010 -
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I am interested in designing my next technical science poster using Adobe Illustrator. Can anyone suggest good tutorials that explain this?
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posted by Aanidaani
on Mar 8, 2010 -
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Years ago, I read a wonderful tutorial someone posted on livejournal explaining how to use and modify old [airline, I think] ad layouts when designing icons. I vaguely remember a few samples with the basic shapes and layouts pulled from them, side by side. I can't seem to find it again. Can anyone help me find it?
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posted by Eshkol
on Mar 8, 2010 -
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[InternetSearchFilter] About a year or so ago, I read an article (pdf?) about designing logos. It had very detailed description of different techniques that can be used in designing a logo. In particular, it was about designing text logos and the kind of information in it included things like how the letters 'M' and 'W' can be fused together if both are present in the word etc.,
It had more to do with teaching different techniques of manipulating letters than a specific logo design example. Ofcourse, without actually knowing more I feel resigned to the thousands of "design a logo" tutorials. Here's hoping someone on AskMeFi remembers what I am talking about
posted by cusecase
on Feb 22, 2010 -
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Ableton Live for beginners: This weekend I'm going to have a couple of days where I get to play with someone's copy of Live, which looks like a very cool piece of software. I'm hoping to make the most of this chance but (a) the last time I made electronic music I programmed SID registers by hand in 6510 assembler in the 80s, and (b) don't know diddly about Live, oh yes, and (c) I don't know diddly about music, either. Is there a decent guide -- in print or online -- that would help me sit down in front of the thing and maybe plink out a couple of really awful songs?
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posted by majick
on Jan 14, 2010 -
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I'm interested in making an introductory/tour video of my website, primarily using screen capture and voice over. I'm looking for quality examples of these types of videos and/or tips and other advice.
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posted by christonabike
on Jan 14, 2010 -
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I have a
picture I want to modify in photoshop, and I'm sure there are relevant tutorials out there on the web, but I don't know how to describe what I want to do to it. Basically, I'd like to give it the illusion of depth -- make the back wall seem further away, and give it more of a sense of perspective, so you get more of a feeling of looking into a room, and less like you're looking at a flattened image of a room. Is there a term for that?
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posted by patnasty
on Dec 5, 2009 -
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I'm trying to re-find an irreverent filmmaking tutorial-video site I never bookmarked. In one memorable video, to show how a camera captures photons, they dropped a hundred tennis balls and tried to catch them in a plastic bucket. Anyone seen this?
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posted by scrowdid
on Nov 5, 2009 -
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I can competently use Illustrator CS3 and do so daily for my job but want to increase my knowledge base and skills.
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posted by karmaville
on Jul 30, 2009 -
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