6/17/11

ALMOST ALMOST finished with tutorial 8. I am really making an effort on this one to make it look useful. I'm trying to show that making a nice, dynamic webpage is easy with SVG. More, on next week.

6/10/11

Finished lesson 7, push to revision 304. I am planning to have one more tutorial, to finish up on SVG.

5/27/11

I'm almost finished with tutorial 6. Interactivity is closely tied to animation, which I will cover in the next chapter, next week.

5/24/11

I'm getting a lot done, and learning even more. The SVG path tag is so complex, that it can do anything that any other visual tag , such as circle, polygon, or rectangle, can do. I thought that the path tutorial would go quickly, but I am having to stop and learn again and again. This tutorial covers paths really well: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html, but as the "getting down with" tutorials are only basic tutorials, I am only going to cover a fraction of what you can do with curves, namely lines, polygons, and simple curves. Mastering curves especially, would mean explaining a lot of math, not something to do in a basic tutorial. I am almost finished with tutorial 4 (paths), and I think I'm done with tutorial 5, where I added a section on embedding conventional (.jpg, .gif, .png) picture files into SVG. After I'm done with paths, I'll take a break, work on the pyBook or something else for a little while.

5/18/11

Revision 292. I am currently working on tutorial 5, which concerns paths.

5/17/11

I think I've pretty much finished tutorials 1-3. I think I might move #4 back later, as it is mostly concerned with posting SVG files onto the internet, and not with paths and actual SVG code like tutorials 1-3 & 5 are. I've pushed to revision 292 tho.

5/16/11

Pushed Revision 290. Tutorial 2 finished.