Creating Tutorials
 

Does anyone know of a good tool for creating programming tutorials that would be first specific?

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It's already been done for you. The teamrush27 programming guides are exceptional. See
http://www.teamrush27.net/rookie-resources

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If you do need to create your own I've found Camtasia from TechSmith to be fantastic. It's not free but worth every penny. They have education pricing (Studio is $179 in that form.). That's what I used for the LEGO NXT, and soon EV3, programming tutorials over at STEMCentric.

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Google presentations on drive are fairly easy to embed in a website.
Quibblo is a tool we use for online quizzes.

A few years back we made these tutorials/quizzes (they are in need of serious updates now)

http://2012.discobots.org/node/7

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If you want fancy zoom in and out stuff Camtasia but if you just want standard video recording, any desktop recorder would work. I stumbled upon something called Aerozoom which is like super powered windows magnifier. You should be able to record the zoom in and stuff with just a free desktop recorder.

I don't have money to spend on it and they need to be for java

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If you are looking for a way to record a screen, you can try out: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

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How can we access the slides and quizzes?

Thanks,
Norman

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You could use http://www.instructables.com/ and link to it in a discussion thread on CD. It's a widely used website and may get exposure beyond the FRC community.

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If you are creating tutorials with speech while you program, I would strongly suggest looking at FRC Mastery to get an idea of how to produce a professional looking tutorial. They use camtasia. If you are looking for static tutorials, those are fairly simple to create with a little HTML knowledge and a little skill in MS paint.

1718 FRC Labview Tutorial

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Adobe Captivate is a great program; it is not free but they offer a free trial. Excellent for screen captures with animation, mouse movement and clicks. Not so good with actual video.

Before picking a tool (any tool), first write your script: what exactly will each screen show, what images and text will appear on screen, and what voice-over will be there. That will help you figure out which tool might be best, and it will minimize the time spent actually creating it. My 2 cents'

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Do you want me to share the google drive presentations ?
PM or email me and I will do this