Educating the Open-source Community With Showmedo

Although as important as the software it supports, education and documentation are relatively neglected in the Open-source world. Coders love to code, and explaining how best to use or improve the software tends to be deferred or even sidelined.

At Showmedo we believe the community can play a vital role here and also say thanks for the tools and software that make our lives easier. If you have a piece of software you love or a programming langugage you are enthusiastic about, why not make a screencast showing others how to use it? All the stuff you wish you'd been told, the tips, tricks, insights that would have saved you time and frustration.

Screencasting is easier than you think, and we're happy to help you. You can email us for advice or just use some of the how-to screencasts on the site. This screencasting learning-path is a good place to start.

Horst Jens

Hi, my name is Horst JENS, living in Vienna, Austria. I teach children how to program open source games. see: http://www.spielend-programmieren.at (German) or http://members.chello.at/horst.jens (English) More tutorials can be found at my http://www.pythongamebook.com For more videos, check out my youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/pygamebooker

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simple graphic adventure game with python and easygui (English)

Horst Jens and mira and Teresa Teresa and Mira made a simple graphical adventure game using python and easygui. While th [...]

Einfaches Grafikadventure mit Python und Easygui (German)

Horst Jens and Teresa Teresa zeigt wie man mit Python und Easygui ein simples Grafikadventure macht und den Cod [...]

Python turtle Grafik Beispiele (German)

Horst Jens Kleine Grafikbeispiele von und für Anfänger in Python programmiert mit dem turtle Modul ( [...]

3d-Modelle erschaffen und texturieren mit wings3d, Gimp und Qcake (German)

Horst Jens and leo Leo zeigt wie man mit den Open-Source-Programmen Wings3d, Gimp und QCake ein einfaches 3d [...]

modelling and texturing 3d-objects using Wings3d, Gimp and Qcake (German language /English subtitles)

Horst Jens and leo Leo shows how to create a simple, textured 3d-model (a witch's cottage) using the program [...]

Python: Beginners Tutorial (Chinese)

Horst Jens and battlelinus a translation of other Beginner Tutorials into Chinese language

Python: Beginners Tutorial (Croatian)

Horst Jens translation of various other Python Beginner tutorials into Croatian language.

Python: xturtle, random und genetischer Algorithmus (German)

Horst Jens and felix schaber dies ist die deutsche Übersetzung der englischen Video-Tutorial-Serie create art with xtu [...]

Python Anfänger Tutorial (German)

Horst Jens and Spächti and Anita Eine Einführung in die Programmiersprache Python von und für Anfänger. Keinerlei Vorkennt [...]

Python: Beginners Tutorial (Russian)

Horst Jens and Lesly a basic tutorial for beginners of Python in Russian.

Python: create art with xturtle, random and genetic_algorithm (English)

Horst Jens and felix schaber and battlelinus a tutorial about using the python module xturtle to draw simple graphics and improve them [...]

QCake the open-source 3D engine (English)

Horst Jens and P.L. and leo a series of video tutorials about QCake , the open-source 3D engine.

transparenter Grafikhintergrund mit GIMP (German)

Horst Jens Dieses Video zeigt wie man mit dem Open-Source Grafikprogramm GIMP die Hintergrundfarbe e [...]

graphic: tranparent background with GIMP (English)

Horst Jens A tutorial about using the graphic program GIMP

Open Office Impress: making a greeting Card (Chinese)

Horst Jens and ljliu How to make a greeting card with OpenOffice Impress

One Laptop per Child (OLPC-Austria): XO-Quiz (many languages)

Horst Jens and Mei and NINI_P This video series shows friends of the OLPC Austria group demonstrating the XO-Quiz (made [...]

qcake the open Source 3D-Engine (German)

Horst Jens and P.L. and Benni and leo Kids show how to use the open-source 3D-engine www.qcake .org The videos in this series a [...]

Showmedo: How to publish your email address in a spam-proof way (English)

Horst Jens This series is somewhat irrelevant because of Ian's email feature for registred authors. [...]

Open Office (many languages)

Horst Jens and Babsi and Barny and Nini and NINI_P and ljliu Students show how to use OpenOffice for simple tasks. The videos are in different languag [...]

Ubuntu: Making a .deb package out of a python program (English)

Horst Jens how to make a debian package (.deb) for Ubuntu Linux out of a python program

Python: Kids show you RurPle and EasyGUI (German / English subtitles)

Horst Jens and P.L. and leo and battlelinus and leo Kids from my Python class show you how to learn Python using RurPle and EasyGUI please no [...]

CLUB SHOWMEDO

Are you learning Python? To keep the site running clean and ad-free we've started Club ShowMeDo. The club will allow you access to some special videos we're making to pass on programming skills we consider important to the development and enjoyment of Free Open Source Software (FOSS).

The focus at the moment is on developing with the Python programming language, one of the backbones of the FOSS movement with a huge number of included and third-party libraries.

Educating the Open-source Community With Showmedo

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