Video Archives

This five-minute video covers the basics of arrays and multi-dimensional arrays — with a quick look at a couple built-in array functions. This video moves pretty fast, so don’t worry if you miss something! It’s meant to be more of an introduction to be watched before you look at the links (below the video) and […]

This seven-minute video covers the basics of making functions, using functions, returning values, and reading function prototypes.

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Links for PHP Day 4: Functions
Making functions:

PHP Functions - An overview of creating your own functions, much more simple (in other words, less frightening) than the PHP manual.
PHP: Functions - More advanced explanations and details from the […]

Today I got familiar with the way PHP uses numbers and operators — just a basic introduction, only three minutes long.

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Links for PHP Day 3: Numbers and Operators
Integers and Floats in PHP:

PHP: Integers - The PHP manual’s page on integers.
PHP: Floating Point Numbers - The PHP manual’s page on floats.
Floating Point - Wikipedia […]

Two-and-a-half-minute video. Today I drew my first still life. It’s just a sphere, but it turned out pretty well!

This five-minute video covers the basics of strings, variables, and how to combine strings and variables.

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Links for PHP Day 2: Strings and Variables
Strings:

PHP: Strings - The page on strings from the PHP manual.
String (Computer Science) - General information (and scary math stuff) from Wikipedia.
Weekly Word: Concatenate - A post on my writing blog […]

Yup, it’s day one of the exciting PHP adventure! This screencast is five and a half minutes long, and it covers some basic information like what you need to get started, how to make a PHP file with Notepad, and the very basics of PHP syntax. See the links below the video for more details.

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This three-minute video demonstrates a few shading techniques that I just learned about: hatching, cross-hatching, scribbling/scumbling, stippling, and contour hatching.

This three-minute video shows how I took the first step towards learning to draw and getting over my slight fear of pencils.