Starting Programming – A new series of tutorials

Python is an easy to use programming language that is ideal for teaching due to its wide range of capabilities (it is used for a variety of tasks), and simplicity of use. This new work in progress series of tutorials will teach common programming concepts, using Python as a tool to do so, while teaching the Python language as a whole.
Read Part 1 here.

Note: The upcoming part 2 will actually start teaching programming. Part 1 is purely the guide to installing the necessary utilities to use Python for the tutorials.

HTML tutorials now have an index…

For each item covered in the HTML tutorials a new list on the main HTML tutorial page will list a link to where the item is covered; Useful if you want to look up how to use something in HTML quickly.
It will not link to items not covered in the tutorials, and the list will grow in time as the number of parts (1, 2, …) to the HTML tutorial increase, and therefore coverage of HTML.
Find it here.

New tutorial released: HTML (part 1)

A new tutorial has been released on HTML.
HTML is depended on in one way or another by every website on the internet and it is well worth the effort (HTML is very easy) to get to grips with the basics of it.
The tutorial covers the latest version of HTML. This doesn’t mean that it includes how to make HTML5 games, more that it avoids the obsolete parts of HTML4 that it is now recommended that people do not use.
See the tutorial here.

Firefox 22 released

Firefox 22 has been released today, 26th June 2013, on the Mozilla (organisation that develops Firefox) website, the highlights in this release include:

  • WebRTC (a way for a website to use your webcam and microphone to provide a real time chat client in your web browser) is now enabled (so that websites can use it – if given your permission) by default rather than as an experimental feature.
  • The HTML5 tags <data> and <time> are now supported
  • WebGL (3D graphics in the web browser) has had speed improvements (leading to more frames per second).
  • JavaScript performance has been improved with a new optimisation of the engine that runs it.
  • Security improvements inside Firefox.

Download it here (www.firefox.com or www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/)