In the last year, The Atlantic has run term-paper length tutorials on Saddam Hussein's idiosyncrasies, a portrait of what postwar Iraq might look like and the domestic state of our union.
In the opening scene of "Beat the Reaper," the former mob hit man Dr. Peter Brown pauses in the act of disabling a mugger to give readers a paragraph-length tutorial on the architecture of the human arm.
The actual work done by a crowdsourcing project depends on the time taken to complete each task and can be calculated, W = H − E T, where W = Total human computation contribution, H = human computation time, E = education cost (total number of players * tutorial length), T = task length.
These features are described at length in a tutorial by Cox et al. (2007).
By trying to maintain uniform format of comparable length, parts of these tutorials are superficially summarized at the expense of a clear and in-depth discussion.
This maxi skirt tutorial uses a single length of fabric, rather than two (or more) smaller pieces sewn together.
This tutorial is similar to the length (five pages) and format (combining graphics and about 200 words of text per page) as the situation of chance tutorial, but focused on the life and travels of Charles Darwin.
For example, a five-tutorial package may convert into a certain length of time on Pluralsight.
Using the log files, we calculated the length of time that the subject spent interacting with the computer tutorial in minutes.
While the tutorial had 6 clips, I ended up with 49, varying in length from two seconds to about a minute and a half.
For this tutorial, it is recommended that you cut 9 strips that are 12 inches in length.
