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''Tutorial'' is one of the five primary [[Resources|resource]] categories for the wiki.
Tutorials are lessons that take the reader by the hand through a series of steps to complete a project of some kind. They are what your project needs in order to show a beginner that they can achieve something with it.
Tutorials are lessons that take the reader by the hand through a series of steps to complete a project of some kind. They are what your project needs in order to show a beginner that they can achieve something with it.


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The important thing is that having done the tutorial, the learner is in a position to make sense of the rest of the documentation, and the software itself.
The important thing is that having done the tutorial, the learner is in a position to make sense of the rest of the documentation, and the software itself.


The difference to the [[:Category:Cookbook|Cookbook]] is that with a tutorial you cannot assume previous knowledge about the subject and the steps should always be reproducible.
=== Comparison to other resource page types ===
 
* If information is more encyclopedic (with a similar scope and tone to pages on [https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]), a page would be considered a [[:Category:Pedias|pedia]].
* If information is less encyclopedic and more similar to a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compendium compendium], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_guide study guide], or a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_to_information_sources bibliographic guide], a page would be considered a [[:Category:Guide|guide]].
* If a page is more just a set of tips and tricks (less instructive than a tutorial), it would be a [[:Category:Cookbook|cookbook]].
* If a page is a detailed reference (like a man page or full software manual), it would fit under [[:Category:reference|references]].