Introduction

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu

The Getting Down with... series is a collection of short, easy to use tutorials written by high school students for high school students and others interested in the topic.

  1. XHTML
  2. JavaScript
  3. Logic Circuits
  4. IPCop
  5. Operating Systems
  6. GIMP
  7. Revision Control/BZR
  8. Scaler Vector Graphics

They do not in any way intend to be exhaustive treatments of their subjects. On the contrary, their principle aim is getting users over the hump of starting out with a new computer science program or tool. The user of these guides should be up and running and doing something useful in only a few minutes.

All final guides are posted above. In short time, we plan to add Getting Down with VI, Getting Down with Gimp, Getting Down with Logic Circuits and, for other students who wish add to the "Getting Down with" library, Getting Down with Getting Down with - a guide on how to create a "Getting Down with" tutorial.

Each of these guides in released under the GNU Free Document License (FDL) and can be freely used under the terms of this license. Writing these tutorials has been a fun and learning experience for each of the writers, and we hope that reading the fruits of our efforts gives you the fun and learning experience you are looking for.