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HTML/Javascript/PHP Canvas Venn Diagram Email Tutorial

Was reminded about the previous HTML/Javascript Canvas Venn Diagram Tutorial as shown below because of a pleasant comment from a user making use of its functionality … thanks and yayyyyyyy team! Looking over it again, though, some functionality to allow … Continue reading →

Language Word Association Game Tutorial

Yesterday we created English Word Association Game Primer Tutorial as shown below, to show a draft English only version of a Word Association game good for ESL purposes. Today we build on that functionality by allowing Word Associations in French … Continue reading →

English Word Association Game Primer Tutorial

With yesterday’s Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Thesaurus Tutorial, using Yahoo Web Services called YQL, as shown below, building on previous ones here at this blog, we effectively signed off on the final (supplementing recent PHP/CSS Sentence Auxiliary Verb Game … Continue reading →

PHP/CSS Sentence Auxiliary Verb Game Tutorial

The easiest English games to design are those that involve discrete words, because then dictionaries and thesauruses can be used. Learning English (for students whose first language is not English (ESL)) is obviously more useful when the student can piece … Continue reading →

Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Data Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that (just) might be re-introducing you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous YQL tutorials on this blog, building on previous Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Country Tutorial as shown below, but … Continue reading →

Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Country Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that might be re-introducing you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous YQL tutorials on this blog, building on previous Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Social Mention Tutorial as shown below. The name … Continue reading →

Windows Onunload Event Primer Tutorial

Posted on January 9, 2015 by admin

Today’s tutorial looks at creating a Speed Reading game by using the “dreaded” window.onunload event … “dreaded” because so many websites have misused it to harrass users as they shape to leave a webpage with onunload event logic that makes … Continue reading →

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1. Sean Zhang on Cocos2d Mac Game Hello World Cocos Creator TutorialNovember 14, 2026
  The Hello World starting point makes it easier to separate project setup from asset problems. A useful follow-up would be importing a small sprite sheet and checking frame dimensions, ordering and padding before adding animation logic. Previewing the individual frames first can help identify whether a problem comes from the artwork or from the engine configuration.
2. Hello Team on Javascript Course Primer TutorialNovember 13, 2026
  The distinction between course-driven and immersion-driven learning is useful. A small extension to the australia.htm exercise would be a set of named map markers and a text filter: first update the visible markers on an input event, then add a collected/uncollected toggle, and finally persist only that toggle state in localStorage. That gives beginners a concrete reason to learn arrays, DOM updates and browser storage without needing PHP or MySQL first. It is also worth testing empty searches, a page reload and disabled storage separately; those are different failure cases. Disclosure: we maintain the GTA 6 interactive map. I am suggesting it as an example of a map-and-progress interface, not claiming that we used the tutorial code. Would you introduce persistence after the first working interaction, or keep the initial exercise entirely stateless?
3. tooloteca on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialNovember 12, 2026
  What I find most interesting here is how honestly the post names the hard part: getting focus to work with [element].click() and [element].blur() is the kind of detail that looks trivial until you actually try to drive a page this way. The single-row table that deliberately overflows to the right also makes sense as a design choice, since a radio playlist needs to be scrolled through rather than squeezed into one screen. And the payoff — clicking one song link and having the songs play in sequence and loop back through the list — is a neat reward for all that plumbing with the audio-only YouTube player.
4. Aleister on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialOctober 22, 2026
  I like the single-row radio-play approach for keeping the controls compact while still making each selection clear. When I’m checking a calculation alongside a tutorial, I use StepStat to see the intermediate steps; how do you handle the layout when the playlist gets much longer?
5. anagrampuzzle on Tabular Single Row Radio Play TutorialOctober 18, 2026
  The idea of mapping a video's key scenes, mood, pacing, and audio before production resonates with me — it's a lot like working out an anagrampuzzle, where the same pieces only make sense once you rearrange them into the right order. Do you usually sketch the mind map before or after the script is locked?

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Tag Archives: HTML

HTML/Javascript/PHP Canvas Venn Diagram Email Tutorial

Language Word Association Game Tutorial

English Word Association Game Primer Tutorial

PHP/CSS Sentence Auxiliary Verb Game Tutorial

Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Datasets Tutorial

Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Data Tutorial

Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Worldbank Country Tutorial

Windows Onunload Event Primer Tutorial

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