Blender Basics classroom tutorial

jcdavis · Post by **jcdavis** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:03 pm

This couldn't come at a better time. I'm planning on introducting Blender to my Freshman Computer Literacy students next week.

I'd love to get my hands on this before then.

Thanks for your work on this.

James Davis

teachtech · Post by **teachtech** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 5:09 am

Ok everyone- I broke up my tutorial book into 3 separate PDF files so I can post them on my website one at a time. Part 1 is uploading right now and if all is functional, start checking in a few hours. Feel free to download and let me know how it is- typos and all!

In a few days, I will switch it over to part 2, a few days later, post part 3. That should make all 85 pages available. Print quality on a laserjet looks pretty good.

I'll make a more formal post tomorrow.

Here's the link:

http://jbchron.home.att.net/

Douwuhhh · Post by **Douwuhhh** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:18 am

Hey Jim,

looks good so far!~I saw a few typos. but, maybe Word could help with some spellingfailures.
The thing which I encountered myself as difficult to read for students is the amount of commands they have to do. You've written them in long sentences. I found that putting them into pointwise-sections is a lot more easy to read (do you get my point, I kind of lost it...

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But overall, good work!

teachtech · Post by **teachtech** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:18 pm

I guess that was a problem. I tried to keep the page count down and straight listing would have given me a few hundred pages more. That's why I start with a short lesson, then go to this.

Statik · Post by **Statik** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:08 pm

I have been following blender since it first came out and I was part of the original donators to release the code. Unfortunately I haven't been able to do much to help the community lately, but I think I can see an opportunity.

I have a 200MB site with a large monthly transfer limit. I can mirror the PDF files for you teachtech. I can either allow you direct linking, or make a webpage for them, your choice. Let me know what you'd like.

Statik

teachtech · Post by **teachtech** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:11 pm

Thanks Statik- this would be wonderful. If you could create a page for it, I can place a link to it on mine. When I post the next 2 files, can you grab them and post them on yours? I plan to put up part 2 tomorrow sometime. Then I'll change my site to reflect that. I guess it would be best to keep them as three file to help with downloading for people like me that still have slow dial-up connections. I could also dump you the entire file from my school connection if you have a way. You can reply here or email me at jchronister@cdsd.k12.pa.us

Thanks so much

Statik · Post by **Statik** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 7:11 pm

Well, here's the linkage so far. Let me know what you think.

http://www.statikonline.com/Blender/

Statik

teachtech · Post by **teachtech** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 7:59 pm

Looks great so far. Thanks

pinhead_66 · Post by **pinhead_66** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 3:50 pm

wonderful work teachtech
there's never enough info on blender

thanks for giving him the bandwith statik

greetz

pinhead_66

Statik · Post by **Statik** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 10:32 pm

Did you want to send me the other parts directly? How do you want to do this?

Statik

teachtech · Post by **teachtech** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:49 pm

PART 2 OF THE MANUAL IS NOW ON MY WEBSITE

HERE: http://jbchron.home.att.net

Statik,

Can I email a file that size to you directly? About 7.5 megs.

Statik · Post by **Statik** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 5:48 pm

I downloaded it from your page, and it's now mirrored on my site

http://www.statikonline.com/Blender/

Statik

dreamsgate · Post by **dreamsgate** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 6:51 pm

Teachtech, you have done an amazing job with this workbook. It will soon become a valuable asset for all newbies.

I eagerly waiting for part 3.

daren · Post by **daren** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:21 pm

Statik wrote:I downloaded it from your page, and it's now mirrored on my site

http://www.statikonline.com/Blender/

Statik

It looks like you made the links incorrect. They are:

http://www.statikonline.com/BlenderTutorialPart1.pdf
http://www.statikonline.com/BlenderTutorialPart2.pdf

They need to have the "Blender" dir in front of the tutrorialPDF name:

http://www.statikonline.com/Blender/Ble ... lPart1.pdf
http://www.statikonline.com/Blender/Ble ... lPart2.pdf

thanks!

Daren

Statik · Post by **Statik** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:41 pm

Yeah, I forgot that I used the <base> tag when I made that page, so I had to make the links absolute, instead of the traditional relative.

Thanks for the update. they are fixed now.

Statik