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Thanks for the great suggestions. 
Can you elaborate a bit more on 'When I write I start with a list of things I want to talk about, rearrange the list so it gradually builds on the previous knowledge. This reinforces the previous while providing small steps.'?
Thanks again.
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The important thing to remember is that people learn in small steps that each build on the last, so getting the order right and keeping each step small is important. The reader needs to be able to say "I got that" before moving on to the next lesson.
When writing I use Word's headings. I start with Heading 1 style and then gradually drill down to greater detail using Heading 2, 3, 4 etc then get to the fine detail
Then when I review my logical sequence and see that, well you need to know this before you can comprehend that, I may rearrange the order using Word's outline view that allows me to collapse a section to say Heading 1 and easily move the entire section.
Once I've said all I need to say then I take the list of Headings and distil them to create the overview and summary.
The overview items fall into perspective if you start each one with "By the end of this article you will be able to..."
With experience you can get more creative but to start use that "by the end of ..."
The summary is the same but with different wording where you briefly recap each section to remind the reader of what they just learned and maybe crystallise it in their minds. Like this -
So to recap -
Tell them what you are going to tell them in the overview
give them the detail
keep your sentences bite size
Build each new section on the knowledge gained from the previous
and then tell them what you told them in the summary
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Great suggestions. Thanks a lot.
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Good that you have started to write and post. It's a great way to learn as you get feedback, whether it's phrased in a kindly manner or not, there are often little gems that you had not have thought of.
I often find that I get half way through a post and realise that I'm totally wrong and discard it. But simply writing the post allowed me to clarify my idea to myself and see why it was wrong.
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Low quality SQL object loses nothing to be easy to move! (8)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The lowest quality object of SQL is CURSOR, but I need two more letters here...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Portable
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"
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You are up tomorrow - care to explain for everyone else?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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SQL analog of an object is a Table. Bad Quality = Poor. Loses nothing; loses an o so Poor become Por.
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"
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Spot on - you are still up tomorrow! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Quote: Man gotta be the man, fish gotta be the fish.
Which movie?
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A Fish Called Walter? 
Either that or
Tarzan vs. Jaws 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Womanizer
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Are you thinking of this one[^]?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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More about a candidate with fluffy hair
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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A Fish Called Wanda
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Ok, once again time for.....
SHARKNADO
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"Fish And Chips"... holy... this even is a real movie 
(yes|no|maybe)*
"Fortunately, we don't need details - because we can't solve it for you." - OriginalGriff
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet
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After messing around with controlling my headless Mac Mini for a couple of weeks over wifi (70MBPS), I finally got it set up and working via Ethernet cable (1.0GBPS).
It was driving me crazy. I finally got it set up on a assigned IP.
It continued to be slow for a couple of days but I couldn't figure it out.
Finally
I finally tried a different ethernet cable and !BOOM! super fast. 
I detailed the steps at: macbook - Is is possible to use remote desktop to a Mac via direct cable or wireless? - Ask Different[^]
Before, I would type a character and it would wait about 1.5 seconds before the char appeared. Complete agony.
Now I can grab an entire window on the Mac and drag it all around and it redraws almost instantly.
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raddevus wrote: ...tried a different ethernet cable and !BOOM!
Almost as if you connected a galaxy note 7. 
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Almost as if you connected a galaxy note 7
This joke is going to continue for a long while, isn't it?
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Leslie doesn't mind.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The cable quality is ever more critical these days. When we're dealing with data rates in the gigabit ranges, simple cables become transmission lines operating at microwave frequencies and above. Twist rates and termination quality are critical to avoid reflections on the line and dropped packets. Even in a high quality 6e cable, sharp bends and crushed cables can cause serious problems. Your best bet is probably to channel the Bastard Operator From Hell via a pair of TV rabbit ears and some aluminum foil, then route the signals to your more pedantic router with 300 ohm ladder line and a 75 ohm converter. It's ugly, but it can be done. But I digress...
I can recall when CP took longer than 2 seconds to respond. We had, perhaps, 50,000 members, but if more than 200 of them dared to connect at once, the whole thing would give up trying and go to sleep. In my own experience, I was one of the first subscribers to use online banking; Bank of America offered online access in 1983, I think, making them one of the earliest adopters. It took about 30 to 45 minutes to check a checkbook balance, but it was lots better than having to drive into the city to ask in person. Again, cable quality was the issue. Standard 25-pair 22 ga copper wire bundles with a twist rate of 5 or 6 turns per inch lacked the capacity for faster data transfer rates. Today we take for granted 10 Gbps data rates, and get frustrated by reduced rates the we would have killed small animals to have a mere decade or two ago.
In summary, quit your whining and be thankful for what you have. In my youth, we would have called it FM; Freakin' Magic. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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