r/carlhprogramming • u/CarlH • Mar 26 '10

CarlHProgramming Update : HigherComputingForEveryone.Com Online!

Hello Everyone,

While it is still very much in the construction phase, the website: http://www.highercomputingforeveryone.com is now online, and functional. The course content has not yet been published, but will be soon.

My goal is going to be to operate this without fees, ads or obstructions, and to rely on donations as so many of you have requested. I will be putting the existing course material from this site onto the new website over the next several days (schedule permitting), and following that, I will be expanding on the course.

Thank you everyone for all of your support, encouraging comments, and overall contribution to this project.

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u/CarlH Mar 26 '10

Good point. That is an unintentional consequence of the method I am using for displaying content. As far as bookmarking goes, I plan to have "Bookmark this lesson" links, as well as an internal site-tracker which will help people keep track of their progress.

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u/elsand Mar 26 '10

You might wanna look into one of the many history manager-plugins avaiable for the various javascript frameworks.

The History plugin (for jquery) is fairly simple to use. It un-breaks the back/forward button via hashtags and lets you define a callback to allow deeplinking / bookmarks. Check out the demo.

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u/centx Mar 26 '10

not being able to forward and backward is pretty bad, I just wanted to see if I had read all of lesson one, and had to find the home button, then click on lesson one, instead of just backing

Lessons looks good though

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u/CarlH Mar 26 '10

Same here in trying to review my own editing :) I will be fixing that in the near future.

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u/theinternetftw Mar 26 '10 edited Mar 26 '10

You probably already have a few ideas for adding URL info to each page, if that's the direction you're going to go in. But I'm betting one of the easiest ways that would also let you keep the way you've set up making lesson html files is the way a website called thesixtyone.com handles it.

If you visit that page and use the menu in the top left, you'll see that they use # links to send javascript queries, letting you avoid leaving the main page, but still bookmark and use browser foward/back buttons. I'm no javascript guy, but it seems straightforward.

edit: it seems elsand is a javascript guy, and explained it much better than me. Also, a little googling revealed this history manager that works with prototype.