4  How to use this book

4.1 General information

The Hitchhiker’s Guide (HHG) is an online book created using an open-source authoring and publishing system called Quarto. We hope that by publishing the HHG in HTML format, it will be more easily accessible—e.g. to vision-impaired or dyslexic students.

If you have dyslexia, you might be interested in this list of Chrome extensions for people with dyslexia. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the accessibility further, please .

4.2 Searching the HHG

A very useful feature of the HHG is that is searchable. Please make ample use of the search feature available in the upper left corner of the window (when using a laptop or desktop computer; on mobile devices, the search icon is in the upper right corner):

Arrow pointing at HHG search field.

4.3 Progress tracking

Some of the HHG chapters require self-study. These parts are marked with a 🏠 icon. Once you have completed these parts, confirm their completion in the Moodle section HHG Self-Study Completion Tracking.

4.4 Online vs. PDF version

This book is designed to be an interactive learning experience and is best viewed in its online HTML format. The online version includes features that are not available in a static format, such as:

  • Interactive quizzes and exercises
  • Embedded applications
  • A full-text search function

For convenience, we also provide a PDF file for each lab class, which is ideal for offline reading and printing. You can find download links within the weekly overview chapter. Please be aware that the features mentioned above, emojis, collapsible sections and cross-references to other parts of the book are not working in the PDF. We recommend using the online version as your primary resource.

4.5 Current and older HHG versions

Note that the most current version of the HHG will always be available at this link: https://psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/lpzjd/psgy1001

If you would like to access the version of HHG that was current when you were in Year 1 in future academic years, modify the link by adding the year in which you started like this: https://psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/lpzjd/psgy1001-25