Tutorials

A number of tutorials are found in the official handbook Nobody Knows Shoes. It's full of sample programs and explanations and illustrations. Too easy. You can acquire a copy from Lulu or, in March of 2008, it will be available here freely in HTML or PDF.

Aside from that, you can pick up a lot of stuff from the web and the mailing list.

Starting Off

• Jogging the Memory with Shoes, a little background on Shoes and a sample cheat sheet app.
• Running With Shoes, a nice and short start.
• Getting Started with Shoes on OS X on lethain.com, a nice guide to running Shoes on OS X. Includes a simple drawing/animation program.
• Okay, Well Shoes on hackety.org, the very first announcement.
• Shoes for Lightweight GUIs at infoq.com, a simple animation program and a longer link-driven program.
  Also available in: Japanese

Linking Tutorials

• HyperShoes on hackety.org, a brief explanation of the storybook sample.

Layout Tutorials

• Your Foot Can Pay Homage on hackety.org, if stacks and flows were shoelaces.
• Picture Shoes on hackety.org, laying out background images.
• Yeah, Shoes Has Just a Few Simple Controls on hackety.org, how to use buttons and edit_lines.

Drawing Tutorials

• 2-D Graphics and Animation on juixe.com, drawing lines and rectangles. A bit of animation.

• More 2-D Examples on juixe.com, a few beautiful examples of animating with circles and colors and masks!
• Shapely on juixe.com, drawing stars and ovals and such.
• Colorfy on juixe.com, how to use colors!
• Transform on juixe.com, draw a rotating star.
• Show Me More on juixe.com, more masks and transparency.
• Cut Holes In Shoes And Get A Mask on hackety.org, a very simple text masking sample.