Learning paths

Welcome to Showmedo's new learning-paths, our attempt to add some much needed structure to our growing collection of content and make learning with us a much more fluid experience.

The River and the Sugar Mountain

Up to now, using Showmedo has been analogous to bringing your spoon and sampling from a mountain of sugar. We have a lump of content, pretty cool content in our opinion, but unstructured and inert. Learning-paths are one step to making Showmedo more like a river, offering journeys of discovery, suggesting interesting tributaries to explore, encouraging serendipitous connections. That's the rather grand ambition and it will doubtless take a while to achieve, but learning-paths is a statement of intent.

Before learning-paths, Showmedo's collection of video-tutorials lacks structure, being a lump of admittedly rather cool content. Learning-paths, created by writing a text script, allow that content to be structured and bound together. In this way, continuous journeys through the content can be fashioned. It is hoped that this will make the experience of learning richer and more enjoyable. Authors should now have much more freedom to guide users, reuse content, both their own and others, and encourage the production of other learning paths.

We have a few learning-paths to help acquaint you with the ideas and methodology:

Our Learning-path Tutorials

Learning Paths
Announcing Showmedo's Learning-paths
Announcing Showmedo's Learning-paths
Kyran Dale To persuade that Learning-paths are, literally and metaphorically the way to go.
How to Write a Learning Path Script
How to Write a Learning Path Script
Kyran Dale You should know enough restructured text (reST) to be able to write a learning-path script [...]
The Anatomy of a Learning-path
The Anatomy of a Learning-path
Kyran Dale To understand the structure of learning-paths and the result of processing a text-script i [...]
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None
gasto and Horst Jens and Lucas Holland and John Montgomery and Kyran Dale and Jeff Rush and André Roberge Understand how the Python interpreter works in a basic manner. Create small useful Python [...]
Basic Programming Skills
Basic Programming Skills
Ian Ozsvald and Horst Jens and Lucas Holland and gasto and John Montgomery and Kyran Dale and Jeff Rush You will have an understanding of using the Shell and source-code control tools, we'll als [...]
Setting up Python
Setting up Python
Ian Ozsvald and Horst Jens and Lucas Holland and gasto and John Montgomery and Kyran Dale and Jeff Rush You will have a working Python setup on Windows (notes for Linux and Mac included)
Beginner Python Programming
Beginner Python Programming
Ian Ozsvald and Horst Jens and Lucas Holland and gasto and John Montgomery and Kyran Dale and Jeff Rush and André Roberge How to read and write simply Python programs and running them
Intermediate Python Programming
Intermediate Python Programming
Ian Ozsvald and Horst Jens and Lucas Holland and gasto and John Montgomery and Kyran Dale and Jeff Rush and André Roberge You will understand how to structure larger programs and you'll have some full examples to [...]
Python for Strong Pythonistas
Python for Strong Pythonistas
Ian Ozsvald This series is tiny right now (only decorators) - please help us expand it
Full Projects in Python
Full Projects in Python
Ian Ozsvald You will have learned how to write several complete applications including an image viewer [...]
pyGame for Python Games
pyGame for Python Games
Ian Ozsvald You'll be able to write your own games in Python
Python 3.0 Introduction
Python 3.0 Introduction
Ian Ozsvald You will have seen Python 3.0 in action and you'll know some of the key differences betwee [...]
Scientific Python Programming
Scientific Python Programming
Ian Ozsvald You'll know how to use Python for math and physics and you'll have tools that are similar [...]
Python GUI Building
Python GUI Building
Ian Ozsvald and Horst Jens and dgd and Kyran Dale and Erik Thompson You'll know how to use wxPython, easyGui and PythonCard to build Graphical User Interfaces
Beginner Python Web Programming
Beginner Python Web Programming
Ian Ozsvald You'll know about CGI web programming, testing web-sites using Twill and the Google App En [...]
Beginner Django Programming
Beginner Django Programming
Ian Ozsvald You will be able to build full Django applications
Python IDEs and Tools
Python IDEs and Tools
Ian Ozsvald You will have an overview of the main Python IDEs and tools
C Programming
C Programming
Ian Ozsvald and gasto You'll know how to write simple C programs
Screencasting Tutorial
Screencasting Tutorial
Ian Ozsvald and Kyran Dale and Horst Jens and Lucas Holland and Jeff Rush and gasto You'll know how to make great screencasts on Windows, Mac and Linux and upload them to Sho [...]
OpenOffice Writer
OpenOffice Writer
Ian Ozsvald and Horst Jens and Dai You'll be comfortable using OpenOffice Writer for general word-processing including sharin [...]
Starting with OpenOffice
Starting with OpenOffice
Ian Ozsvald and Horst Jens and Dai You'll be comfortable using the free OpenOffice suite

Connectivity Network for all Learning-paths.
(Click on the nodes to visit the path, series or video.)