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> A student asked me the difference between a tutorial
> and instructions
> and I was at a loss for a precise distinction. I
> came up with a
> general feeling that a tutorial was a more
> autonomous, confined tour
> of a process whereas instructions don't necessarily
> have a beginning
> and an end. Is that all it is, though? Is the
> difference simply the
> different organizations or is there something more
> qualitative than
> that? David Tillyer, City College of New York
> DATCC -at- CUNYVM -dot- CUNY -dot- EDU
Instructions tell it like it is. Tutorials hand-hold
through a scenario.
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