CStutor

C++ Tutorials Review

Good features:

• Includes 'Instructions for Use' which details audience, structure, and compatibility information for the tutorial.
• Real code examples, with blow-by-blow explainations of the statements, with attention to 'big-picture' concepts.
• Sidebar which shows the whole tutorial layout, broken up by section and page, with the current page highlighted. This allows for easy navigation.
• Side by side examples of code and output, broken away from normal text. This clarifies what data is output, and the precise form it takes.
• Includes pictures which break up real code into grouped sections, by type of statement or declaration.
• Includes references to other helpful material for beginners, like an ASCII table and numerical baes.
• Includes a package of all sources from the tutorial.

Bad features:

• Source files for examples are in a different section that is not referenced.
• Some information about design and history is located away from the tutorial (which is good), but is not accessible without browsing around for it.

Missing features:

• Interactivity. Very cut-and-dried, with little experimentation, and no feedback by user modifications.