Orientation/Learning Documentation

The code in this pull request comprises of two parts:

1. Documentation as orientation or learning material. Some in class and class-feature note clauses and others in NOTES.txt (which--at it turns out--is not going to be my ultimate suggestion, but simply where we started).

2. Some changes I needed to get EWF to run on my local machine.

I like the content, this is really helpful.
I am just wondering about the format, I would rather see a markdown or mediawiki syntax for this content.
The benefit would be to have it browsable and nicely display within github easily.
I would rather see README.md instead of NOTES.txt .

And if you are really focus on the formatting your are suggesting, I guess this is because you may have tool to process them? or a specification, so maybe it should have a specific file extension ?   .edoc or similar?

The benefit to use markdown or mediawiki syntax, is to simplify the publishing of such doc content on the web, to follow existing standard.

What is your feeling about that?