Seems to be put together with images from The 4-H Knitting Handbook.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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It's a very good visual how the stitches are formed. The e-book you linked goes even deeper, showing all kinds of useful basic stitches and providing a few easy to follow patterns.
But I would argue those stitches in OP are not continental per se. Continental knitting refers to holding the yarn in left hand, opposed to English knitting where the yarn is held in right hand. The imagery is for knit stitches, western mount, meaning that the leading leg of the stitch is on the right. In western style the same, leading leg on the right, would apply to purl stitches as well, as seen in the book.
Edit: changed a wrong term. Somehow the thought was running too fast and the eye didn't pick it up
Ouch. As someone trying to learn continental, who found this online and posted here thinking it was a good tutorial, thanks for letting me know I gave people misinformation. Would this actually be English style or is Western style something different? (In honesty, when people use words like "front of stitch" and "back of stitch" and "leading leg" I just flat out do not understand.) If so, I'll retitle my posts.
@Emotional_Series7814 the book says “wrap the yarn”, that’s English. Continental would be picking the yarn with your right needle.