How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming

Programming a computer requires patience and concentration. Only rigorous planning and adherence to the plan will prevent serious logical mistakes in our designs. But when we finally master the design of programs, we will have learned skills that are useful far beyond the realm of programming.
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Functional Programming For The Rest of Us

“So what is FP? How did it come about? Is it edible? If it’s as useful as its advocates claim, why isn’t it being used more often in the industry? Why is it that only people with PhDs tend to use it? Most importantly, why is it so damn hard to learn?”
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Making An Animated Smiley In Photoshop And ImageReady (Video) Tutorial

This free Photoshop video tutorial will teach you how to create an animated smiley for the use on your website, forum or just about any other web aplication on earth. You will be learning the pencil tool, switching the foreground and background colors, sending documents into imageready, adding frames, optimizing your web graphics, …
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Ever Wanted to Learn to Program but Never Could?

This website is a very well-done tutorial on learning how to program. It uses concepts that are applicable to many languages, and its a great way to get started. Maybe best of all is that it teaches you in Ruby, the base of Ruby on Rails (the future of web development)!
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Photoshop tutorials >> Amazing colored sketched photos

Learn how to made this amazing photo effect to your photos : VERY EASY TUTORIAL!
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How to Tell Time by the Stars

If you ever wondered how to tell time without a sun-dial, here’s your chance to learn.
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Learn C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, And More Though Flash Videos

A man named Sean Greasley who is from the UK made quite a few flash video tutorials on how to program. C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, Direct 3D, SQL, with more on the way. These videos combined with a book will get any novice on their feet.
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Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful:
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How to Stop saying “Um” and “Ah” during a speech

One of my largest pet peeves as an audience member is a speaker who does not have his or her ‘ums’ or ‘ahs’ under control. I learned how to stop the ‘ums’ during my first year of teaching, and the technique that I was shown was quite simple…
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GIMP Tutorials

Learn how to do aqua/crystal/glassy orbs, layered masks, Script-fu, water, fire, lightning, blending, rust, metal, fog and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you’re a very new GIMP user, there’s even a tutorial on how to draw a box using paths or how about one on doing Rounded corners?
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