>Looking back even further for a basic grounding, let us not forget:
>http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0705041&printmode=true
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>Very true! :)
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>That one is an absolute ground-level article.
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>Side note: I've always tried to be careful when posting code for articles, but on that article, I made several mistakes (mainly stupid copy-paste mistakes from my code samples into the article code)....I got some incredibly nasty emails from 1 person who thought I was completely incompetent....who posted a large handful of separate comments on the site.
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>(That's always been an issue of mine...I can go up to an article site, post 10 different comments, and it will appear that they came from 10 different people).
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>But I used that code as the basis for a community presentation that became very popular...once drew over 100 people in a room.

Really? I'm impressed. I tried drawing one person once. Couldn't get the hands right.