tutorial critique

[Erik <br0ke@math.smsu.edu>]

Hi

I wrote a really bad tutorial a bit ago, and I want to write more really bad
tutorials, but I want to make them less bad :) I was hoping I could get some
people to read over the one I released and critique it? It'd also be neat to
get some ideas for what tutorials are wanted/needed. I was starting up a
website that was supposed to be a bunch of tutorials on game development in
linux, but I seem to lack the motivation/time for a larger scale project like
that. What I got is a bunch of small well documented simple programs for use in
tutorials at http://shells.clipboard.com/~br0ke/gamedev/. The tutorial I made
that sucked real bad was on joysticks and is
http://sunsite.auc.dk/linuxgames/tutorials/greenwald_joystick.html

Any kind of feedback would be greatly appreciated, I'm mostly interested in
feedback on content and structure (I know the spelling and grammer probably
suck badly, but I got a friend who's an english major, and I can steal him from
 his book I think)      

another thing, um, I tried using the template that's provided to make it easy,
but I couldn't get it to work, I think my demo page had an unbalanced table or
something? are there header and footer html's that can be used for those? mebbe
a cgi I can throw on my webserver to test? I tend to do most of my writing when
I'm tired and/or drunk, so trying to cut thru deeply nested tables just isn't
gonna work ... :)

thanks :)

        -Erik <br0ke@math.smsu.edu> [http://shells.clipboard.com/~br0ke]

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