Tutorials and Other Resources on Hot Potatoes

Check out the applications before you download, by looking through these online tutorials.

Our tutorials

Tutorials based on version 6

Hacking Hot Potatoes: A detailed workshop with ten examples (based on version 6)
Hacking in Hot Potatoes: A little knowledge brings a lot of power (based on version 6)
How to edit the source files (based on version 6)
Documentation of source files and placeholders

Tutorials and helpful materials created by other users

Dr. Stan Bogdanov has published Hacking Hot Potatoes: The Cookbook, available in paperback, PDF and ePub format.

Agnès Simonet maintains an excellent Hot Potatoes collection of add-ons, along with those originally written by Michael Rottmeier, for version 7 of Hot Potatoes: https://hpaddons.pages-perso.free.fr/.

Kind users have contributed the following translations of the tutorials, and other helpful materials. Note that most of these relate to very old versions of Hot Potatoes.

Chinese
- Introduction, Explanation and Examples by HKEdCity in Hong Kong
- Brief introduction to version 5 of Hot Potatoes by the Language Training and Testing Center in Taiwan
Croatian
- Hot Potatoes Tutorial in Croatian, by Saida Deljac, Aleksandra Žufic, Vesna Erceg, and Ivanka Kranjcevic-Oreškovic. This page also has downloads of the Help file in PDF and CHM format, translated into Croatian.
- Example exercises in Croatian, by the same team.
Danish
- PDF Tutorial in Danish, by Peter Gawinski Olesen
- Introduction and links to materials and interface in Danish, by Lodrö Sangpo Joergen Larsen
Dutch
- Startpage of Hot Potatoes Exercises and Theory by Hans De Four. This includes hundreds of exercises, tutorials and a bulletin board.
- Hot Potatoes resources in Dutch.
- Hot Potatoes Tutorial in Dutch, by Henk Verdru
English
- Introductory tutorial for Hot Potatoes by Tammy Powell's Technical Writing class.
- How to convert MCQs in Word or text format into JQuiz data files, by Ashley Brewin.
- Tutorials and How-Tos for Hot Potatoes, by Stan Bogdanov.
- Beginner and Advanced Audio Crossword Tutorials, by Stan Bogdanov.
- Gerald Grow's system (zip file download) for collecting HotPot exercise results into a text file on your server.
- hot-potatoes.js, a tutorial with JavaScript code by Gordon Bateson, demonstrating how to collect more detailed results from Hot Potatoes exercises.
- Storing results in a database using ASP, a tutorial by Fernanda Rodrigues.
- "How-to" movies on basic Hot Potatoes tasks, by Jane Madden
- Using video, a tutorial by David Seume, at Ashcombe School in the UK.
- A thorough and detailed Tutorial on Hot Potatoes by Bernard Dyer
- Simple tutorial on getting started with Hot Potatoes by Andrew Balaam
- Teaching Tools, in German and English, by Michael Rottmeier. This site has tutorials and customized source files for creating different styles of exercise with Hot Potatoes.
Estonian
- Introduction and Windows tutorial in Estonian by Anneli Kesksaar
Finnish
- Windows tutorial (including Masher) in Finnish by Heikki Honkola
French
- Manuels et tutoriels de Hot Potatoes créés ou traduits par Fabien Olivry
Galician
- Tutorial in Galician by Xosé Antón
German
- Hot Potatoes: Ein Tutorial, by Johannes Will.
- Version 6 Help file in German, by by Rüdiger Klampfl. Also available is a PDF version of the Help file in German.
- Version 6 Tutorials (both Hot Potatoes and Masher) in German, with example files and other materials by Richard Nisius.
- Teaching Tools, in German and English, by Michael Rottmeier. This site has tutorials and customized source files for creating different styles of exercise with Hot Potatoes.
- Math in Hot Potatoes, in German, by Achim Burgermeister.
- Richard Zaiser's Guide to transferring results using the CGI options in Hot Potatoes (German and English versions).
- Article in German on HotPot, by Marco Fileccia
- Windows tutorial in German (by Rüdiger Klampfl); also note his German HotPot Users' bulletin board.
- German version of the Hot Potatoes handout (by Ilpo Halonen)
Italian
- Nel sito http://www.cyberteacher.it, di Paolo Cutini, potete trovare la traduzione italiana delle guide di 'Hot Potatoes' e 'The Masher', oltre ad altre risorse relative agli stessi programmi e ad una raccolta di esercizi creata in collaborazione con gli utenti di Hot Potatoes.
Japanese
- Tutorial in Japanese, by Sachiko Komatsu-Delmaire
Lithuanian
- Tutorial in Lithuanian, by Tatjana Radzeviciene
Polish
- Interface and Configuration files and more in Polish for version 6 and 5, by Lechoslaw W. Hojnacki
Portuguese
- Tutorial in Portuguese, by Guida Querido
- Example exercises in Portuguese, by Guida Querido
Russian
- Tutorial in Russian by Marina Bovtenko
Slovenian
- Tutorials in Slovenian by Nataša Holy
Spanish
- Examples and instructions in Spanish by Francisco Muñoz de la Peña
- Windows tutorial en Español (by Ismail Ali Gago)
Swedish
- Tutorial in Swedish, by Fredrik Åman, at the Faculty of Education. Åbo Akademi University, Vasa

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